Crossword clues for greaten
greaten
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Greaten \Great"en\, v. t. To make great; to aggrandize; to cause to increase in size; to expand. [R.]
A minister's [business] is to greaten and exalt [his
king].
--Ken.
Greaten \Great"en\, v. i. To become large; to dilate. [R.]
My blue eyes greatening in the looking-glass.
--Mrs.
Browning.
Wiktionary
vb. 1 (context intransitive English) To become great or large; increase; dilate. 2 (context intransitive obsolete English) To become great with child; become pregnant. 3 (context transitive English) To make great; magnify; enlarge; increase.
Usage examples of "greaten".
I have it now, a notion to do something that will greaten their respect without hurting them.
As it did not, the fates had served me best If in the thick and thunder of to-day, Like Nelson, Harold, Hector, Cyrus, Saul, I had been shifted from this jail of flesh, To wander as a greatened ghost elsewhere.
John patted Jim upon the back and at that greatened length they reached The Flying Swan.
But as I left Cairo in the greatening distance, floating onward to the heart of the mysterious river, I floated also into the twin current of thought, that, flowing full and impetuous from the shores of the peopled Mediterranean, follows the silent river, and tracks it to its hidden lurking-place in the blank desert.