gigantize
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gigantize (third-person singular simple present gigantizes, present participle gigantizing, simple past and past participle gigantized)
- (transitive) To make, or treat as, gigantic.
- 1969, Robert E. Wood, Martin Buber's Ontology: An Analysis of I and Thou, page 77:
- Modern public life has seen the gigantizing and centralizing of economic and political developments.
- 1990, Ben Agger, The Decline of Discourse, page 99:
- We gigantize the few “successful” public writers who avoid the degradations of trade publishing or the corporate university precisely because these figures are so exceptional.