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
According to my unfailing informant in these regions, the Purmerend stadhuis, in order “to aggrandise the cheese market,” was in 1633 “set back a few meters by screwing-force”.
From A Wanderer in Holland by Herbert Marshall, R.W.S.
The whole family, while professing to be the obedient servants of the Pharaoh, nevertheless acted with a good deal of independence, and sought to aggrandise themselves at the expense of the neighbouring governors.
From Patriarchal Palestine by A. H. (Archibald Henry) Sayce
At Baieux was his episcopal stall; and he was the foremost man of all to aggrandise the king.
From The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle by J. H. (James Henry) Ingram
