gigantify
English
[edit]Verb
[edit]gigantify (third-person singular simple present gigantifies, present participle gigantifying, simple past and past participle gigantified)
- (transitive) To make gigantic.
- 1806, Leigh Hunt, “Essay on Brooke”, in Classic Tales: Serious and Lively, volume 1, page 221:
- There is no necessity to gigantify atoms in order to excite our admiration, for they are more wonderful considered in their comparative minuteness; to equalize their description with the hugest animals of the earth is nothing but to render their real feebleness contemptible.
- 2001, David J. Skal, The Monster Show: A Cultural History of Horror, page 248:
- The basic premise was, of course, stupid: since irradiated marigold seeds, for instance, could yield humongous blossoms, then atomic testing could transform and gigantify anything, like a technological gypsy curse.
- 2005, Chris Condon, 3-D Filmmakers: Conversations with Creators of Stereoscopic Motion Pictures, page 15:
- With a 32mm lens you're not going to get the perspective to gigantify an object.