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greaten

verb
/ˈɡɹeɪtən/UK

Etymology

From Middle English gretnen (“to become great, be pregnant”), equivalent to great + -en.

  1. inherited from gretnen — “to become great, be pregnant”

Definitions

  1. To become great or large

    To become great or large; increase; dilate.

  2. To become great with child

    To become great with child; become pregnant.

  3. To make great

    To make great; magnify; enlarge; increase.

    • one studies how how to please his prince, the other how to greaten and secure him.
    • No blushes! all my body's blood / Has gone to greaten this poor heart, / That, loving, we may part.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at greaten. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

01greaten02magnify03glorify04exalt05elevate06raise07increase

A definitional loop anchored at greaten. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

7 hops · closes at greaten

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

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