gigantify

present singular third person gigantifies · participle present gigantifying · participle past gigantified · past gigantified

1. transitiveTo make gigantic.

   With a 32mm lens you're not going to get the perspective to gigantify an object.

   2005, Chris Condon, 3-D Filmmakers: Conversations with Creators of Stereoscopic Motion Pictures, page 15

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   There is no necessity to gigantify atoms in order to excite our admiration, for they are more wonderful considered in their comparative minuteness; to equalize their description with the hugest animals of the earth is nothing but to render their real feebleness contemptible.

   1806, Leigh Hunt, “Essay on Brooke”, in Classic Tales: Serious and Lively, volume 1, page 221

   The basic premise was, of course, stupid: since irradiated marigold seeds, for instance, could yield humongous blossoms, then atomic testing could transform and gigantify anything, like a technological gypsy curse.

   2001, David J. Skal, The Monster Show: A Cultural History of Horror, page 248

   Synonyms: giantize, giantise, gigantize, gigantise