"greaten" meaning in English

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  "etymology_text": "From Middle English gretnen (“to become great, be pregnant”), equivalent to great + -en.",
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      "form": "greatens",
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        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
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    {
      "form": "greatening",
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        "participle",
        "present"
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      "form": "greatened",
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        "participle",
        "past"
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
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      "word": "engreaten"
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        "To become great or large; increase; dilate."
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          "great",
          "great"
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        [
          "large",
          "large"
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          "increase",
          "increase"
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        [
          "dilate",
          "dilate"
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      "raw_glosses": [
        "(intransitive) To become great or large; increase; dilate."
      ],
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        "intransitive"
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      "glosses": [
        "To become great with child; become pregnant."
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          "pregnant",
          "pregnant"
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      "raw_glosses": [
        "(intransitive, obsolete) To become great with child; become pregnant."
      ],
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        "intransitive",
        "obsolete"
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        {
          "ref": "1685, Thomas Ken, sermon preached […] at Whitehall:",
          "text": "one studies how how to please his prince, the other how to greaten and secure him.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1860, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Parting Lovers:",
          "text": "No blushes! all my body's blood / Has gone to greaten this poor heart, / That, loving, we may part.",
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      "glosses": [
        "To make great; magnify; enlarge; increase."
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          "enlarge",
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      "raw_glosses": [
        "(transitive) To make great; magnify; enlarge; increase."
      ],
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    {
      "word": "decrease"
    },
    {
      "word": "lessen"
    }
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    {
      "form": "greatens",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
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    },
    {
      "form": "greatening",
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        "participle",
        "present"
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    {
      "form": "greatened",
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        "participle",
        "past"
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    {
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        "English intransitive verbs"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To become great or large; increase; dilate."
      ],
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        [
          "great",
          "great"
        ],
        [
          "large",
          "large"
        ],
        [
          "increase",
          "increase"
        ],
        [
          "dilate",
          "dilate"
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        "(intransitive) To become great or large; increase; dilate."
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        "intransitive"
      ]
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      "glosses": [
        "To become great with child; become pregnant."
      ],
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        [
          "pregnant",
          "pregnant"
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      ],
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        "(intransitive, obsolete) To become great with child; become pregnant."
      ],
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        "intransitive",
        "obsolete"
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          "text": "one studies how how to please his prince, the other how to greaten and secure him.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1860, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Parting Lovers:",
          "text": "No blushes! all my body's blood / Has gone to greaten this poor heart, / That, loving, we may part.",
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      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To make great; magnify; enlarge; increase."
      ],
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          "magnify",
          "magnify"
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          "enlarge",
          "enlarge"
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        "(transitive) To make great; magnify; enlarge; increase."
      ],
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