greaten
Americanverb (used with object)
verb (used without object)
verb
Etymology
Origin of greaten
Middle English word dating back to 1325–75; see origin at great, -en 1
Example Sentences
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No law must straiten The ways they wait in, Whose spirits greaten And hearts aspire.
From More Songs From Vagabondia by Carman, Bliss
The persons upon the stage, let us say, greaten till they are humanity itself.
From The Cutting of an Agate by Yeats, W. B. (William Butler)
Secondly, this ideal of Imperial Britain will greaten and exalt the action of the soldier, hallowing the death on the battlefield with the attributes at once of the hero and the martyr.
From The Origins and Destiny of Imperial Britain Nineteenth Century Europe by Cramb, J. A. (John Adam)
Then grief caught her again by the throat, at the thought that spring might come, and summer greaten, but she was a stricken woman whose joy would not return.
From Country Neighbors by Brown, Alice
We love to think that Alfred's wars were not to greaten himself, but to set his country free.
From Our Catholic Heritage in English Literature of Pre-Conquest Days by Hickey, Emily
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