αὐξάνω
Etym. poet. ἀέξω q. v.
I. "to make large, increase, augment", Hdt., etc. (Hom. only uses ἀέξω).
2. "to increase in power, strengthen, exalt, aggrandise", Hdt., attic: also "to promote to honour, glorify, magnify", Trag., Plat.
II. Pass. "to grow, wax, increase", Hes., Hdt., etc.; αὐξ. ἐς πλῆθος, ἐς ὕψος id=Hdt.; of a child, "to grow up", id=Hdt.; ηὐξανόμην I "grew taller", Ar.; so with an adj., αὐξάνεσθαι μέγας "to wax" great, Eur. Hence