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engreaten

engreaten

English

Verb

engreaten ‎(third-person singular simple present engreatens, present participle engreatening, simple past and past participle engreatened)

  1. (obsolete) Make great; aggravate (an offence); compare greaten.

Quotations

  • For usage examples of this term, see Citations:engreaten.

Translations

References

  1. ↑ The Oxford English Dictionary (2007) states that engreaten was formed by the simultaneous prefixing of en- and suffixing of -en, which, by definition, constitutes circumfixation.

Etymology

Great + en- -en, intensifying verbal circumfix.[1]

Pronunciation

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