enormify

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

  1. To make enormous;
    • 1912, Alan Durward Mickle, The Dark Tower, page 91:
      He produces colossal symbols. He glorifies and enormifies men until they no longer resemble men, and yet always are they devoid of life.
    • 1953, William Bernard Ready, Weerawannas, page 100:
      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.
    • 1975, Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons, Official Report of the Standing Committees:
      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.