aggrandize Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. verb add details to
    dramatize; dramatise; embellish; blow up; pad; embroider; lard; aggrandise.

WordNet

Ag"gran*dize transitive verb
Etymology
F. agrandir; à (L. ad) + grandir to increase, L. grandire, fr. grandis great. See Grand, and cf. Finish.
Wordforms
imperfect & past participle Aggrandized present participle & verbal noun Aggrandizing
Definitions
  1. To make great; to enlarge; to increase; as, to aggrandize our conceptions, authority, distress.
  2. To make great or greater in power, rank, honor, or wealth; -- applied to persons, countries, etc.
    His scheme for aggrandizing his son. Prescott.
  3. To make appear great or greater; to exalt. Lamb. Syn. -- To augment; exalt; promote; advance.
Ag"gran*dize intransitive verb
Definitions
  1. To increase or become great. Obs.
    Follies, continued till old age, do aggrandize. J. Hall.

Webster 1913