gigantize

English

Verb

gigantize (third-person singular simple present gigantizes, present participle gigantizing, simple past and past participle gigantized)

1. (transitive) To make, or treat as, gigantic.
   • 1969, Robert E. Wood, Martin Buber's Ontology: An Analysis of I and Thou, page 77:

     Modern public life has seen the gigantizing and centralizing of economic and political developments.

   • 1990, Ben Agger, The Decline of Discourse, page 99:

     We gigantize the few “successful” public writers who avoid the degradations of trade publishing or the corporate university precisely because these figures are so exceptional.

Synonyms

• giantize/giantise
• gigantify

Antonyms

• miniaturize/miniaturise

Derived terms

• gigantization
• gigantizing