aggrandise
- a variation of aggrandize.
Example Sentences
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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
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
The first thing to aggrandise a man in his own conceit, is to conceive of himself as neglected.
From The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb — Volume 2 Elia and The Last Essays of Elia by Lamb, Charles
Narr' Havas had in fact wished to aggrandise himself by encroachments upon the Punic provinces, and had alternately assisted and forsaken the Mercenaries according to the chances of victory.
From Salammbo by Flaubert, Gustave
In point of fact, there was not one of the great Continental Powers which, during the previous fifty years, had not 'attempted to aggrandise itself by force,' and, necessarily, 'at the expense of other States.'
From Memoirs of the Life and Correspondence of Henry Reeve, C.B., D.C.L. In Two Volumes. Volume II. by Laughton, John Knox
