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AGGRANDIZE
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I. (verb)
Verb forms
Present simple: I / you / we / they aggrandize ... he / she / it aggrandizes
Past simple: aggrandized
Past participle: aggrandized
-ing form: aggrandizing
Sense 1
Meaning:
Add details to
Synonyms:
aggrandise; aggrandize; blow up; dramatise; dramatize; embellish; embroider; lard; pad
Classified under:
Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing
Hypernyms (to "aggrandize" is one way to...):
amplify; exaggerate; hyperbolise; hyperbolize; magnify; overdraw; overstate (to enlarge beyond bounds or the truth)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "aggrandize"):
glorify (cause to seem more splendid)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s something with something
Derivation:
aggrandizement (the act of increasing the wealth or prestige or power or scope of something)
