gigantizeとは 意味・読み方・使い方

動詞

gigantize (三人称単数 現在形 gigantizes, 現在分詞 gigantizing, 過去形および過去分詞形 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.

同意語

• giantize/giantise
• gigantify

反意語

• miniaturize/miniaturise

派生語

• gigantization
• gigantizing