Embarrass vs Embiggen - What's the difference?
embarrass | embiggen |
to humiliate; to disrupt somebody's composure or comfort with acting publicly or freely; to disconcert; to abash
To hinder from liberty of movement; to impede; to obstruct.
To involve in difficulties concerning money matters; to encumber with debt; to beset with urgent claims or demands.
(rare, nonstandard) To enlarge or grow; to make or become bigger.
* 1884 , C.A. Ward, "New Verbs", in Notes and Queries: A Medium of Intercommunication for Literary Men, General Readers, Etc ,
* 1996 , Dan Greaney, :
* 2007 , Riccardo Argurio, Matteo Bertolini, Sebastián Franco, and Shamit Kachru, “
* 2012 , (Caitlin Moran), ‘Hair: a big issue’, The Times , 4 Feb 2012:
* 2013 , The Guardian, “
As verbs the difference between embarrass and embiggen
is that embarrass is to humiliate; to disrupt somebody's composure or comfort with acting publicly or freely; to disconcert; to abash while embiggen is (rare|nonstandard) to enlarge or grow; to make or become bigger.embarrass
English
Verb
(es)- The crowd's laughter and jeers embarrassed him.
- Business is embarrassed'''; public affairs are '''embarrassed .
- A man or his business is embarrassed when he can not meet his pecuniary engagements.
Synonyms
* (humiliate) abash, discomfit, disconcert, humiliate, shame * See alsoDerived terms
* embarrassmentExternal links
* *embiggen
English
Verb
(en verb)volume 10, page 135:
- Are there not, however, barbarous verbs in all languages? , but the people magnified them, to make great or embiggen , if we may invent an English parallel as ugly. After all, use is nearly everything.
- A noble spirit embiggens the smallest man.
Gauge/gravity duality and meta-stable dynamical supersymmetry breaking”, in Journal of High Energy Physics , JHEP01 (2007) 083, January 23:
- [p 24] For large P , the three-form fluxes are dilute, and the gradient of the Myers potential encouraging an anti-D3 to embiggen is very mild.
- [p 26] While in both cases for P anti-D3-branes the probe approximation is clearly not good, in the set up of this paper we could argue that there is a competing effect which can overcome the desire of the anti-D3s to embiggen , namely their attraction towards the wrapped D5s.
- As I joyfully embiggen myself into the vague silhouette of Chewbacca, I have time to reflect on just what it is about big hair that I find so elementally appealing.
Every train station in Britain listed and mapped: find out how busy each one is”, picture caption:
- Train stations: how busy is yours? Victoria Station in 1927. Click image to embiggen .