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smallen en · VERB

Etymology

From small + -en.

Meanings

1. (ambitransitive) To make or become small; diminish
   • In fact, I did—when I wrote Roget's story. Which begs the question, was the tale really diminished—lessened, minimized, or smallened in some way—when I started to lean on that linguistic crutch? 2019, Mike Rowe, The Way I Heard It, page 90:
   • Do you feel you will be smallening yourself, Norman, if you examine your childhood? 2015, August Franza, The Life I Had in Mind:
   • And Ywain looked down in his wheeling, and there was the city of Dœdala very far beneath him, and it smallened and darkened continually, so that save for the moonlight upon the towers he had soon seen it no more. 1914, Blackwood's Magazine, volume 196, page 193:

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