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aggrandise::verb | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | aggrandize, blow up, dramatise, dramatize, embellish, embroider, lard, pad |
| Type of | overstate, exaggerate, amplify, hyperbolise, hyperbolize, magnify, overdraw |
| Has types | glorify |
| Derivation | aggrandisement |
Examples of aggrandise
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The third obviously was offensive way she's using Somalia to self-aggrandise.
From the guardian.co.uk
Spalding was, however, known to aggrandise his role in the major moments in baseball's history.
From the en.wikipedia.org
Some try and aggrandise science, and make out you have to be very clever to understand it but I think it is actually simple and straightforward.
From the telegraph.co.uk
Perhaps someone who actually wants to run a successful coal company should be appointed as CEO rather than those who wish to self-aggrandise.
From the nbr.co.nz
There is no ego wishing to aggrandise itself by punishing the opponent and every move is performed effortlessly before one has time to think.
From the en.wikipedia.org
Often the pomp and length of rites could be politically or socially motivated to advertise or aggrandise a particular kin group in Roman society.
From the en.wikipedia.org
Instead too often the political class attracts go-getters on personal missions to aggrandise themselves, their network of immediate friends, and also to help build up personal wealth.
From the guardian.co.uk
- Embroider: add details to
- To make great; to enlarge; to increase; as, to aggrandise our conceptions, authority, distress; To make great or greater in power, rank, honour or wealth; applied to persons, countries, etc; To make appear great or greater; to exalt; To increase or become great
