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Aggrandize

//əˈɡɹændaɪ̯z// verb

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Verb
  1. 1
    To make great; to enlarge; to increase. transitive

    "to aggrandize one's authority, distress"

  2. 2
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  3. 3
    To make great or greater in power, rank, honor, or wealth (applied to persons, countries, etc.). transitive

    "[…] the aggrandizing of your estate by well managed fortune […] may well set out your praises to the world […]"

  4. 4
    To make appear great or greater; to exalt. transitive

    "[…] 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."

  5. 5
    To increase or become great. intransitive, rare

    "1946, Office of United States Chief of Counsel for Prosecution of Axis Criminality, Nazi Conspiracy and Aggression, Volume 2, Washington: United States Government Printing Office, p. 317, The generals, like Hitler, wanted Germany to aggrandize at the expense of neighboring countries, and to do so if necessary by force or threat of force."

Etymology

From French agrandir.

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