Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • To make big; increase.
  • To grow big; become larger.
  • 2. To gain strength after confinement.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • verb Obs. or Dial. To make or become big; to enlarge.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • verb Eye dialect spelling of begin.
  • verb rare, obsolete To make bigger

Etymologies

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

big +‎ -en. From Middle English biggen.

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