embiggening

Verb

embiggen (third-person singular simple present embiggens, present participle embiggening, simple past and past participle embiggened)

1. (ergative, humorous, nonstandard, usually) To enlarge; to make or become bigger.
   • Are there not, however, barbarous verbs in all languages? ἀλλ’ ἐμεγάλυνεν αυτοὺς ὁ λαός, but the people magnified them, to make great or embiggen, if we may invent an English parallel as ugly. After all, use is nearly everything.1884, C.A. Ward, “New Verbs”, in Notes and Queries: A Medium of Intercommunication for Literary Men, General Readers, Etc, volume 10, page 135

   Synonyms:

   swell, grow, aggrandize, bigger, enlarge, magnify

   Antonyms:

   ensmallen, debigulate, shrink, diminish, belittle, contract