1884, C.A. Ward, "New Verbs", in Notes and Queries: A Medium of Intercommunication for Literary Men, General Readers, Etc, volume 10, page 135:Are there not, however, barbarous verbs in all languages? ἀλλ' á¼Î¼ÎµÎ³Î¬Î»Ï…νεν αυτοὺς ὠλαός, 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.
1996, Dan Greaney, The Simpsons, episode 3F13: “â€, credits, beneath the statue of :A noble spirit embiggens the smallest man.
2007, Riccardo Argurio, Matteo Bertolini, Sebastián Franco, and Shamit Kachru, “Gauge/gravity duality and meta-stable dynamical supersymmetry breakingâ€, in Journal of High Energy Physics, JHEP01 (2007) 083, January 23:p 24 For large P, the three-form fluxes are dilute, and the gradient of the Myers potential encouraging an anti-D3 to embiggen is very mild.p 26 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 effect which can overcome the desire of the anti-D3s to embiggen, namely their attraction towards the wrapped D5s.
2012, Caitlin Moran, ‘Hair: a big issue’, The Times, 4 Feb 2012:As I joyfully embiggen myself into the vague silhouette of Chewbacca, I have time to reflect on just what it is about big hair that I find so elementally appealing.
