aggrandize
verb (used with object)
to widen in scope; increase in size or intensity; enlarge; extend.
aggrandized
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past participleof aggrandize.past participle
A verb form used in perfect and passive verb constructions and that can also function as a modifier.
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past tense formof aggrandize.past tense
Used to describe completed actions or previous habitual actions.
aggrandizeverb (used with object)to widen in scope; increase in size or intensity; enlarge; extend.
Example Sentences
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He did everything to feel aggrandized and powerful.
From Salon ● Jul. 13, 2020
These slacker gestures, aggrandized with an eye-rolling statement from the artist that the “artworks are finished when they have been returned,” undercut the ambition of the other three participants.
From New York Times ● Dec. 12, 2019
“He is not standing stoically or posed ‘heroically’ on a pedestal or being aggrandized in bronze,” Weitzman said.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 3, 2018
And would the predictable reaction have been helpful, or only further aggrandized terrorism and divided society?
From US News ● Oct. 26, 2016
The fathers whose sons had played merited a more aggrandized status in the fraternity of older men who queued along the passageway.
From "The Great Santini" by Pat Conroy
