ensmallen

verb
/ɪnˈsmɔːlən/UK/ɛnˈsmɔlən/US

Etymology

From small + en- -en, by analogy with embiggen. Attested from 2002. Logical antonym of "embiggen," a humorous neologism popularized by television writer David X. Cohen; see 1996 quotation.

Definitions

  1. To make smaller.

The neighborhood

  • antonymembiggenantonym(s) of “make bigger”

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for ensmallen. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA