aggrandize
verb/əˈɡɹændaɪ̯z/
Etymology
From French agrandir. By surface analysis, ag- + grand + -ize.
- borrowed from agrandir
Definitions
To make great
To make great; to enlarge; to increase.
- to aggrandize one's authority, distress
- [They] doe adde vnto the bitternesse of that Day, and agrandise the heauie weight of trouble.
To make great or greater in power, rank, honor, or wealth (applied to persons, countries,…
To make great or greater in power, rank, honor, or wealth (applied to persons, countries, etc.).
- […] the aggrandizing of your estate by well managed fortune […] may well set out your praises to the world […]
- […] under pretence of ſecuring the purity of religion, he had laid a ſcheme of aggrandizing his own family, by extending its dominions over all Germany.
To make appear great or greater
To make appear great or greater; to exalt.
- aggrandize one's accomplishments and downplay others'
- […] they contrive to make all approaches to them difficult and vexatious, and imagine that they aggrandize themſelves by waſting the time of others in uſeleſs attendance, and by mortifying them with ſlights, and teazing them with affronts.
- The first thing to aggrandise a man in his own conceit, is to conceive of himself as neglected.
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To increase or become great.
The neighborhood
- synonymadvance
- synonymaggrandize
- synonymdignify
- synonymelevate
- synonymennoble
- synonymexalt
- synonymhonor
- synonymnobilitate
- synonymprefer
- synonympromote
- synonymraise
- synonymuplift
- antonymdemean
- neighborengrandize
- neighboringrandize
- neighborameliorate
- neighborempower
- neighborincrease
- neighborupgrade
- neighborbeknight
- neighborbelord
- neighborinvest
- neighborknight
- neighborlord
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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA