ENGLISH DICTIONARY

Vasten

Definition, Meaning & Examples

Part of speech verb

Quick meaning: Vasten is a verb meaning (rare, ambitransitive) To make or become vast.

Meaning

(rare, ambitransitive) To make or become vast.

Example Sentences

And while I gazed in wonder and incipient alarm, straightway the throne and the king seemed strangely to blend into one, and then to grow and expand on all sides; and still vastening, and ever more vastening, it presently rose from the earth, self-moved, tremulous in every part with life, huge, dreadful, with deep rifts, and chasms, and gulfs of darkness.

Word Forms

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include widen, grossen, widthen, expand, voluptuate, broaden.

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