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gigantize

gigantize verb: to make, or treat as, gigantic.

Verb

gigantize (third-person singular simple present gigantizes, present participle gigantizing, simple past and past participle gigantized)

  1. (transitive) To make, or treat as, gigantic.
    • Modern public life has seen the gigantizing and centralizing of economic and political developments.1969, Robert E. Wood, Martin Buber's Ontology: An Analysis of I and Thou, page 77
    • We gigantize the few “successful” public writers who avoid the degradations of trade publishing or the corporate university precisely because these figures are so exceptional.1990, Ben Agger, The Decline of Discourse, page 99
    Synonyms:
    giantize, giantise, gigantify

Synonyms of gigantize

Antonyms

Forms of gigantize

third-person singular presentgigantizes
present participlegigantizing
past participlegigantized
pastgigantized

Words formed from gigantize

Questions about gigantize

What does gigantize mean?
Gigantize means to make, or treat as, gigantic.
What part of speech is gigantize?
Gigantize is a verb.
What is the past tense of gigantize?
The past tense of gigantize is gigantized.

Words near gigantize in the dictionary

  1. gigantin
  2. gigantine
  3. gigantiporate
  4. gigantism
  5. gigantisms
  6. gigantize
  7. gigantized
  8. gigantizes
  9. gigantizing
  10. giganto
  11. giganto-

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