English
Etymology
term|big|Big|langen + term|em- -en|langen, prebilabial intensifying verbal circumfix.�The occurrence of the verb term||embiggen in the 1884 publication Notes and Queries: A Medium of Intercommunication for Literary Men, General Readers, Etc and its occurrence in the 1996 Simpsons episode Lisa the Iconoclast are most probably unrelated, the word having likely been instead coined independently, but by the same process; later appearances of this word are probably related to the 1996 neologism.
Pronunciation
a|RP IPA|/�m�bɪg��n/
Verb
en-verb
- context|nonce make|Make bigger.
#* 1884: William John Thomas et alios, Notes and Queries: A Medium of Intercommunication for Literary Men, General Readers, Etc, p135 (possible links: 1 & 2)
#*: �polytonic|�μεγάλ�νεν α��οὺ� � λα��, but the people magnified them, to make great or embiggen, if we may invent an English parallel as ugly. After all, use is nearly everything.�������C. A. W<small>ARD</small>.
#* 1996: Dan Greaney, w:The Simpsons|The Simpsons � episode 3F13: �w:Lisa the Iconoclast|Lisa the Iconoclast�, credits: beneath the statue of w:Jebediah Springfield|Jebediah Springfield
#*: A noble spirit embiggens the smallest man.
#* 2006�7 i|R<small>ECEIVED</small>: November 22, 2006; A<small>CCEPTED</small>: January 3, 2007; P<small>UBLISHED</small>: January 23, 2007: Riccardo Argurio, Matteo Bertolini, Sebastián Franco, and Shamit Kachru, Gauge/gravity duality and meta-stable dynamical supersymmetry breaking, pp24<sup>{1}</sup> & 26<sup>{2}</sup>
#*: <sup>{1}</sup>For large P, the three-form �uxes are dilute, and the gradient of the Myers potential encouraging an anti-D3 to embiggen is very mild.
#*: <sup>{2}</sup>While in both cases for P anti-D3-branes the probe approximation is clearly not good, in the set up of this paper we could argue that there is a competing e�ect which can overcome the desire of the anti-D3s to embiggen, namely their attraction towards the wrapped D5s.
#* 2007 A<small>UGUST</small> the 9<sup>th</sup>: A<small>UTHOR UNKNOWN</small> (perhaps �Wordwatch�), Nature: Sidelines, volume 448, page<sup>?</sup> 632
#*: In a case of theoretical physics imitating art, �embiggen�, first coined by The Simpsons character Jebediah Springfield, has now been used in a paper on string theory by Stanford University�s Shamit Kachru. In case you need a definition, it means �to grow or expand�.
Antonyms
ensmallen
Synonyms
enlarge
See also
cromulent
Translations
trans-top|Make bigger
Dutch: t|nl|groteren
German: t|de|vergranden
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Spanish: t|es|engrandecer
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