aggrandize
verb (used with object)
to widen in scope; increase in size or intensity; enlarge; extend.
aggrandise
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a variation of
aggrandize.
Example Sentences
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Oliver Fairclough, the Keeper of Art at the National Museum of Wales, said the Nazis accrued works to aggrandise themselves and their regime.
From BBC ● Jan. 17, 2014
It seems incongruous that the founder of the Gestapo should be an art collector but he was building up a collection to aggrandise the Reich.
From BBC ● Jan. 17, 2014
Show and grandeur, pomp and vanity, revelling and folly—all to show thee, to aggrandise thee, to delight thee.
From In Convent Walls The Story of the Despensers by M. (Madelaine) Irwin
The secret articles signed between these two Emperors, at Tilsit, plainly indicated their intentions to aggrandise themselves at the expense of England and her allies; Russia in the north, and France in the south.
From Memoirs of Henry Hunt, Esq. — Volume 2 by Henry Hunt
Does the Pope want to aggrandise himself by war?
From The Roman Question by Edmond About
