Greaten

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This word is acceptable for play in the US & UK dictionaries that are being used in the following games:

The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • v. Archaic To make or become great or greater.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • v. To become great or large; increase; dilate.
  • v. To become great with child; become pregnant.
  • v. To make great; magnify; enlarge; increase.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • v. To make great; to aggrandize; to cause to increase in size; to expand.
  • verb-intransitive. To become large; to dilate.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • To become great or large; increase; dilate.
  • To become great with child; become pregnant.
  • To make great; magnify; enlarge; increase.
  • Word Usage
    "And while the whole face was the incarnation of fierceness and strength, the primal melancholy from which he suffered seemed to greaten the lines of mouth and eye and brow, seemed to give a largeness and completeness which otherwise the face would have lacked."
    Verb Form
    greatened    greatening    greatens   
    Cross Reference
    engreaten   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    aggrandize    expand    dilate    enlarge