embiggen

发音

UK /ɪmˈbɪɡən/
其它
US /ɛmˈbɪɡən/

词形变化

embiggened embiggening embiggens 三单 embiggens embiggening 现在分词 embiggened 过去式 embiggened 过去分词

释义与例句

v.
  1. 1.

    To enlarge; to make or become bigger.

    幽默

词源

From em- + biggen or big + em- -en, possibly analogous to belittle. The morphology parallels that of enlarge (en- + large) or embolden (em- + bold + -en). The verb's first recorded use is in an 1884 edition of the British journal Notes and Queries: A Medium of Intercommunication for Literary Men, General Readers, Etc. by C. A. Ward (see quotation below). The word’s current popularity follows its deployment as an intentionally ungainly form by television writer Dan Greaney for The Simpsons episode “Lisa the Iconoclast” in 1996.

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