AGGRANDISE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does aggrandise mean? 

• AGGRANDISE (verb)
  The verb AGGRANDISE has 1 sense:

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  Familiarity information: AGGRANDISE used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• AGGRANDISE (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they aggrandise    ... he / she / it aggrandises   
Past simple: aggrandised   
Past participle: aggrandised   
-ing form: aggrandising   

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Meaning:

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Classified under:

Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing

Synonyms:

aggrandise; aggrandize; blow up; dramatise; dramatize; embellish; embroider; lard; pad

Hypernyms (to "aggrandise" is one way to...):

amplify; exaggerate; hyperbolise; hyperbolize; magnify; overdraw; overstate (to enlarge beyond bounds or the truth)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "aggrandise"):

glorify (cause to seem more splendid)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s something with something

Derivation:

aggrandisement (the act of increasing the wealth or prestige or power or scope of something)

 Context examples 

He only wanted to aggrandise and enrich himself; and if Miss Woodhouse of Hartfield, the heiress of thirty thousand pounds, were not quite so easily obtained as he had fancied, he would soon try for Miss Somebody else with twenty, or with ten.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)