AGGRANDIZE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does aggrandize mean? 

• AGGRANDIZE (verb)
  The verb AGGRANDIZE has 1 sense:

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  Familiarity information: AGGRANDIZE used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• AGGRANDIZE (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they aggrandize    ... he / she / it aggrandizes   
Past simple: aggrandized   
Past participle: aggrandized   
-ing form: aggrandizing   

Sense 1

Meaning:

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Classified under:

Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing

Synonyms:

aggrandise; aggrandize; blow up; dramatise; dramatize; embellish; embroider; lard; pad

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:

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Somebody ----s something with something

Derivation:

aggrandizement (the act of increasing the wealth or prestige or power or scope of something)