"vasten" meaning in English

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  "etymology_text": "From vast + -en (verbal suffix).",
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      "form": "vastens",
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    {
      "form": "vastened",
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  "pos": "verb",
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          "ref": "1871, The Sunday Magazine, page 425",
          "text": "And while I gazed in wonder and incipient alarm, straightway the throne and the king seemed strangely to blend into one, and then to grow and expand on all sides; and still vastening, and ever more vastening, it presently rose from the earth, self-moved, tremulous in every part with life, huge, dreadful, with deep rifts, and chasms, and gulfs of darkness.",
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        "To make or become vast"
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        "(rare, transitive, intransitive) To make or become vast"
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  "etymology_text": "From vast + -en (verbal suffix).",
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    {
      "form": "vastens",
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        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
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    {
      "form": "vastening",
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        "participle",
        "present"
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    },
    {
      "form": "vastened",
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        "participle",
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