Aggrandize
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Pronunciation /əˈɡɹændaɪ̯z/ · Part of speech verb
Quick meaning: Aggrandize is a verb meaning (transitive) To make great; to enlarge; to increase.
Meaning
(transitive) To make great; to enlarge; to increase.
More Meanings
- (transitive) To make great or greater in power, rank, honor, or wealth (applied to persons, countries, etc.).
- (transitive, formal) To make appear great or greater; to exalt.
- (intransitive, rare) To increase or become great.
Example Sentences
to aggrandize one's authority, distress
[They] doe adde vnto the bitternesse of that Day, and agrandise the heauie weight of trouble.
[…] 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.
Word Forms
- aggrandizes
- aggrandizing
- aggrandized
- aggrandise
Synonyms for aggrandize
Depending on context, synonyms include advance, dignify, elevate, ennoble, exalt, honor.
Antonyms for aggrandize
Common opposites include demean.
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include dramatise, embellish, dramatize, blow up, pad, embroider.
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