aggrandize
verb (used with object)
to widen in scope; increase in size or intensity; enlarge; extend.
has aggrandized
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present perfectof aggrandize (3rd person singular).present perfect
Used to describe actions that started in the past and continue into or have direct relevance to the present.
Example Sentences
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There is the influence of television, which has aggrandized the whole profession.
From Time Magazine Archive
By the time it reaches Paris this vin de Touraine of commerce has aggrandized itself so that it commands two francs fifty centimes on the Boulevards, and a franc fifty in the University quarter.
From Castles and Chateaux of Old Touraine and the Loire Country by M. F. (Milburg Francisco) Mansfield
