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- Dictionaryaggrandize/əˈɡrandʌɪz/
verb
- 1. increase the power, status, or wealth of: "an action intended to aggrandize the Frankish dynasty"
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I know her avaricious and acrimonious disposition—her love of wealth, and her anxiety to aggrandize her family. In the mob, as a French psychologist has said, ideas neutralize each other, but emotions aggrandize each other. The people were virtually enslaved to aggrandize a single person.
The meaning of AGGRANDIZE is to make great or greater : increase, enlarge. How to use aggrandize in a sentence. Did you know?
To aggrandize someone means to make them seem richer, more powerful, and more important than they really are. To aggrandize a building means to make it more impressive.
Aggrandize definition: to widen in scope; increase in size or intensity; enlarge; extend.. See examples of AGGRANDIZE used in a sentence.
The verb aggrandize not only means "to make appear greater"; it can also be used to mean simply "to make greater." If you buy an estate and sink millions of dollars into its improvement, then you are actually aggrandizing the estate.
Aggrandize definition: To consider to be or cause to appear greater than is really the case; exaggerate.
1. to widen in scope; increase in size or intensity; enlarge; extend. 2. to make great or greater in power, wealth, rank, or honor. 3. to make (something) appear greater. ag•gran′dize•ment (-dɪz mənt) n. ag•gran•diz•er (əˈgræn daɪ zər, ˈæg rənˌdaɪ-) n.
I know her avaricious and acrimonious disposition—her love of wealth, and her anxiety to aggrandize her family. In the mob, as a French psychologist has said, ideas neutralize each other, but emotions aggrandize each other. The people were virtually enslaved to aggrandize a single person.
ag•gran•dize /əˈgrændaɪz, ˈægrənˌdaɪz/ v. [~ + object], -dized, -diz•ing. extend: The company aggrandized its operations overseas. to make great or greater in power, wealth, rank, or honor: They worked hard to aggrandize the family name. ag•gran•dize (ə gran′ dīz, ag′ rən dīz′), v.t., -dized, -diz•ing. extend.
To aggrandize someone means to make them seem richer, more powerful, and more important than they really are. To aggrandize a building means to make it more impressive.
