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huecapanoa.

Headword: 
huecapanoa.
Principal English Translation: 

to rise up, to become enlarged; to raise or enlarge something (see Molina and Karttunen)

Orthographic Variants: 
uecapanoa
IPAspelling: 
wehkɑpɑnoɑː
Alonso de Molina: 

uecapanoa. nino. (pret. oninouecapano.) enxalzarse, o engrandecerse.
uecapanoa. nite. (pret. oniteuecapano.) sublimar y engrandecer a otro.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 155r. col. 2. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

Frances Karttunen: 

HUEHCAPANOĀ vrefl,vt to rise up, to become enlarged; to raise, enlarge something / ensalzarse o agrandecerse (M), sublimar y engrandecer a otro (M) See HUEHCAPAN.

HUEHCAPANILHUIĀ applic. HUEHCAPANOĀ.

HUEHCAPANŌLŌ nonact. HUEHCAPANOĀ
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 83.

Attestations from sources in English: 

yhuan mexicatzinco ohtli yn atenamitl mochiuhtoc mohuecapano motlalten motlachcuitlaz = And the Mexicatzinco road that has been made into a dike was raised; soil and sod were thrown on it (central Mexico, 1610)
Annals of His Time: Don Domingo de San Antón Muñón Chimalpahin Quauhtlehuanitzin, James Lockhart, Susan Schroeder, and Doris Namala, eds. and transl. (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2006), 162–3.