aggrandize
verb (used with object)
to widen in scope; increase in size or intensity; enlarge; extend.
aggrandizes
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present tense formof aggrandize (3rd person singular).present tense
Used to describe things happening now or regularly.
Example Sentences
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Trinidad Gonzales, a history professor at South Texas College, said the pamphlet aggrandizes Manifest Destiny, the belief that American settlers had the God-given right to expand across North America.
From Salon ● Sep. 27, 2022
An army of female dancers aggrandizes her divadom, and, as one of her lead choreographers told the Times, “everything,” everything, “is choreographed to a T.”
From Slate ● Sep. 4, 2021
It seems like, among other things a miserable mindset, one that aggrandizes your ego but withers your soul.
From The Guardian ● Mar. 19, 2019
Nichol, who also deftly shot and edited the film, never fetishizes or aggrandizes the typewriter, but instead smartly contextualizes its place as a classic symbol of American ingenuity, practicality and style.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 31, 2017
The Sultan, in fact, not only aggrandizes himself by the quarrels of his own subjects, but he profits by the disputes between the foreign consuls and his governors.
From Travels in Morocco, Volume 1. by James Richardson
