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Definitions: GREATEN |
GREATENIntransitive verb1. To become large; to dilate. Transitive verb1. To make great; to aggrandize; to cause to increase in size; to expand. |
Date "GREATEN" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1904. (references) |
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| Expression | Frequency per Day |
define greaten | 3 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "GREATEN"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Romanian | se mãri (accrue, augment, enlarge, grow, increase, largen, lengthen, stretch, swell), mãri (add, advance, aggrandize, amplify, augment, better, broach, broaden, carry, develop, dilate, enhance, enlarge, expand, extend, improve, increase, intensify, largen, lift, magnify, multiply, piece out, raise, reinforce, splay, step up, swell, widen). (various references) | |
Spanish | mejorar (ameliorate, amend, beat, better, break, disencumber, enhance, gain, get better, improve, improve on, leak, look up, mend, pick up, progress, raise, rally, soup up, throw over, upgrade). (various references) | |
Thai | ทำให้ขนา"ใหญ่ขึ้น, มีขนา"ใหญ่ขึ้น. (various references) | |
Turkish | büyütmek (aggrandize, amplify, augment, blow up, bring up, dilate, dramatize, enhance, enlarge, exaggerate, expand, Foster, glorify, grow, magnify, make big, make the most of, nourish, nurture, overstate, raise, rear, rebore, soup up), büyümek (accrue, augment, bulk, enlarge, expand, extend, flourish, grow, grow up, hatch, increase, outgrow, shoot up, swell, vegetate, wax). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "GREATEN": greatened, greatening, greatens. (additional references) | |
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"GREATEN" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: createn, gertan, graten, greate, greatey, greten, treaten. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: grantee, negater, reagent. | |
| Words within the letters "a-e-e-g-n-r-t" | |
-1 letter: argent, enrage, entera, ergate, garnet, genera, gerent, neater, negate, regent. | |
-2 letters: agene, agent, agree, anger, antre, arete, eager, eagre, eaten, eater, egret, enate, enter, genet, genre, grant, grate, great, green, greet, ragee, ranee, range, regna, rente, retag, targe, tenge, terga, terne, treen. | |
-3 letters: agee, ager, ante, earn, eger, erne, etna, gaen, gane, gate. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-e-e-g-n-r-t" | |
+1 letter: estrange, generate, grantees, gratinee, greatens, interage, negaters, reagents, regental, sergeant, teenager. | |
+2 letters: agentries, agreement, argentine, argentite, augmenter, denigrate, engrafted, entangler, entourage, estranged, estranger, estranges, garmented, generated, generates, generator, germinate, gratineed, gratinees, greatened, greatness, guarantee, integrate, margented, parentage, rectangle, regranted, reheating, repeating, reseating, reteaming, retearing, segregant, sergeants, sergeanty, stingaree, tangerine, teenagers, teratogen. | |
+3 letters: agreements, antimerger, argentines, argentites, augmenters, baronetage, centigrade, congregate, deaerating, degenerate, denigrated, denigrates, dermatogen, dewatering, emarginate, enervating, entanglers, entourages, entreating, ergotamine, estrangers, estreating, execrating, feathering, federating, fragmented, garnierite, generalist, generality, generating, generation, generative, generators, generatrix, germinated, germinates, goaltender, gravestone, greatening, greenheart, guaranteed, guarantees, hatemonger, heartening, impregnate, ingathered, integrable, integrated, integrates, intergrade, interregna, interstage, leathering, magnetizer, outgeneral, overeating, parentages, percentage, permeating, pregenital, preheating, ravagement, realtering, reargument, recreating, rectangles, reenacting, regelating, regenerate, regimental, relegating, relegation, reteaching, retreading, retreating, segmentary, segregants, steamering, stingarees, strangered, superagent, tangerines, teratogens, vegetarian, venerating, weathering. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)47 52 45 41 54 45 4E |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)--. .-. . .- - . -. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000111 01010010 01000101 01000001 01010100 01000101 01001110 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)G R E A T E N |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0047 0052 0045 0041 0054 0045 004E |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)41523935543948 |
| 1. Definition 2. Expressions: Internet 3. Translations: Modern 4. Derivations | 5. Anagrams 6. Orthography 7. Bibliography |
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