enormify

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verb

To make enormous;

Scrabble 16

Meanings

verbenormify (third-person singular simple present enormifies, present participle enormifying, simple past and past participle enormified)

present singular third person enormifies · participle present enormifying · participle past enormified · past enormified

  1. To make enormous;

    He produces colossal symbols. He glorifies and enormifies men until they no longer resemble men, and yet always are they devoid of life.

    1912, Alan Durward Mickle, The Dark Tower, page 91
    2 more examples

    Swinging out of Parky 's hip pocket, on a tangled length of grubby string, was his magnifying glass, a dime plastic one; Parky put it to his eye to see them more clearly. The two little men shrank as the enormified eye of the child looked them over, it was a shrinking of awe, not of fear — what had they, grown men, to fear from a chile? — they though, as well as they could, not yet realizing the situation.

    1953, William Bernard Ready, Weerawannas, page 100

    I hope no Member of the Opposition will enormify and balloon this issue, because it is an important issue, and feeling outside the House must not be encouraged on either side.

    1975, Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons, Official Report of the Standing Committees
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