Aggrandized

2 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Aggrandize \Ag"gran*dize\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Aggrandized}; p.
     pr. & vb. n. {Aggrandizing}.] [F. agrandir; [`a] (L. ad) +
     grandir to increase, L. grandire, fr. grandis great. See
     {Grand}, and cf. {Finish}.]
     1. To make great; to enlarge; to increase; as, to aggrandize
        our conceptions, authority, distress.


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     2. To make great or greater in power, rank, honor, or wealth;
        -- applied to persons, countries, etc.
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              His scheme for aggrandizing his son.  --Prescott.
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     3. To make appear great or greater; to exalt. --Lamb.
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     Syn: To augment; exalt; promote; advance.
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From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  87 Moby Thesaurus words for "aggrandized":
     accelerated, amplified, apotheosized, augmented, awesome,
     ballyhooed, beatified, beefed-up, big, bloated, boosted, broadened,
     canonized, deepened, deified, disproportionate, elevated, eminent,
     enhanced, enlarged, ennobled, enshrined, enthroned, exaggerated,
     exalted, excellent, excessive, exorbitant, expanded, extended,
     extravagant, extreme, glorified, grand, grandiloquent, great,
     heightened, held in awe, high, high and mighty, high-flown, hiked,
     hyperbolic, immortal, immortalized, increased, inflated,
     inordinate, intensified, jazzed up, lofty, magnified, mighty,
     multiplied, overdone, overdrawn, overemphasized, overemphatic,
     overestimated, overgreat, overlarge, overpraised, oversold,
     overstated, overstressed, overwrought, prodigal, profuse,
     proliferated, puffed, raised, reinforced, sainted, sanctified,
     shrined, spread, stiffened, strengthened, stretched, sublime,
     supereminent, superlative, swollen, throned, tightened, touted,
     widened