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- [1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
aggrandize \ag"grandize\, v. i.
to increase or become great. obs.
1913 webster
follies, continued till old age, do aggrandize. --j.
hall.
1913 webster
- [2] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
aggrandize \ag"grandize\, v. t. imp. p. p. aggrandized; p.
pr. vb. n. aggrandizing. f. agrandir; `a l. ad +
grandir to increase, l. grandire, fr. grandis great. see
grand, and cf. finish.
1. to make great; to enlarge; to increase; as, to aggrandize
our conceptions, authority, distress.
1913 webster
2. to make great or greater in power, rank, honor, or wealth;
-- applied to persons, countries, etc.
1913 webster
his scheme for aggrandizing his son. --prescott.
1913 webster
3. to make appear great or greater; to exalt. --lamb.
1913 webster
syn: to augment; exalt; promote; advance.
1913 webster
see also:
aggrandized aggrandizing grand finish
- [3] : WordNet (r) 2.0
aggrandize
v : add details to syn: embroider, pad, lard, embellish,
aggrandise, blow up, dramatize, dramatise
see also:
embroider pad lard embellish aggrandise blow up
dramatize dramatise
- [4] : Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
110 moby thesaurus words for "aggrandize":
add to, advance, amplify, apotheose, apotheosize, augment,
ballyhoo, beatify, beef up, bloat, blow up, boost, broaden, build,
build up, bulk, bulk out, burlesque, canonize, caricature,
carry too far, crescendo, crown, deify, develop, dignify, dilate,
distend, distinguish, draw the longbow, elevate, enlarge, ennoble,
enshrine, enthrone, erect, exaggerate, exalt, expand, extend,
fatten, fill out, glamorize, glorify, go to extremes, graduate,
heighten, hike, hike up, honor, huff, hyperbolize, immortalize,
increase, inflate, jack up, jump up, kick upstairs, knight,
lay it on, lengthen, lionize, magnify, make legendary,
make much of, maximize, multiply, overcharge, overdo, overdraw,
overestimate, overpraise, overreach, overreact, oversell,
overspeak, overstate, overstress, parlay, pass, pile it on, prefer,
promote, puff, puff up, pump, pump up, put up, pyramid, raise,
rarefy, saint, sanctify, set up, stretch, stretch the truth,
sublime, sufflate, swell, talk big, talk in superlatives, thicken,
throne, tout, travesty, up, upgrade, uplift, uprear, widen
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