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GREATEN
Etymology
Verb
greaten (third-person singular simple present greatens, present participle greatening, simple past and past participle greatened)
(intransitive) To become great or large; increase; dilate.
(intransitive, obsolete) To become great with child; become pregnant.
(transitive) To make great; magnify; enlarge; increase.
Antonyms
• decrease, lessen
Anagrams
• grantee, negater, reagent, rentage, reägent
Source: Wiktionary
Great"en, v. t.
Definition: To make great; to aggrandize; to cause to increase in size; to expand. [R.] A minister's [business] is to greaten and exalt [his king]. Ken.
Great"en, v. i.
Definition: To become large; to dilate. [R.] My blue eyes greatening in the looking-glass. Mrs. Browning.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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ENDLESSLY
(adverb) (spatial sense) seeming to have no bounds; “the Nubian desert stretched out before them endlessly”
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