aggrandize – מילון אנגלי-אנגלי
aggrandize (Amer.)
v.
make bigger, make larger; widen; extend; increase the power or status of; increase the wealth of; intensify or exaggerate the reputation of someone in an artificial manner; make something look greater; exaggerate, add details to (also aggrandise)
aggrandize
Verb
1. add details to
(synonym) embroider, pad, lard, embellish, aggrandise, blow up, dramatize, dramatise
(hypernym) overstate, exaggerate, overdraw, hyperbolize, hyerbolise, magnify, amplify
(hyponym) glorify
(derivation) aggrandizement, aggrandisement, elevation
Aggrandize
(v. t.)
To make great; to enlarge; to increase; as, to aggrandize our conceptions, authority, distress.
(v. t.)
To make great or greater in power, rank, honor, or wealth; -- applied to persons, countries, etc.
(v. t.)
To make appear great or greater; to exalt.
(v. i.)
To increase or become great.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), edited by Noah Porter.
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aggrandize
v. a.
1. exalt
سرفراز کرنا , اختيار، درجہ، مرتبہ يا رتبہ بڑھانا
2. enlarge
بڑھانا , زيادہ کرنا , بڑا کرنا
aggrandize
Synonyms and related words:
add to, advance, amplify, apotheose, apotheosize, augment, ballyhoo, beatify, beef up, bloat, blow up, boost, broaden, build, build up, bulk, bulk out, burlesque, canonize, caricature, carry too far, crescendo, crown, deify, develop, dignify, dilate, distend, distinguish, draw the longbow, elevate, enlarge, ennoble, enshrine, enthrone, erect, exaggerate, exalt, expand, extend, fatten, fill out, glamorize, glorify, go to extremes, graduate, heighten, hike, hike up, honor, huff, hyperbolize, immortalize, increase, inflate, jack up, jump up, kick upstairs, knight, lay it on, lengthen, lionize, magnify, make legendary, make much of, maximize, multiply, overcharge, overdo, overdraw, overestimate, overpraise, overreach, overreact, oversell, overspeak, overstate, overstress, parlay, pass, pile it on, prefer, promote, puff, puff up, pump, pump up, put up, pyramid, raise, rarefy, saint, sanctify, set up, stretch, stretch the truth, sublime, sufflate, swell, talk big, talk in superlatives, thicken, throne, tout, travesty, up, upgrade, uplift, uprear, widen,
Source: Moby Thesaurus, which is part of the
Moby Project created by Grady Ward. In 1996 Grady Ward placed this thesaurus in the public domain.