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aggrandize 音标拼音: [əgr'ænd ,ɑɪz] vt. 增加,夸大 增加,夸大 aggrandize v 1: add details to [ synonym: { embroider}, { pad}, { lard}, { embellish}, { aggrandize}, { aggrandise}, { blow up}, { dramatize}, { dramatise}] Aggrandize \ Ag" gran* dize\, v. i. To increase or become great. [ Obs.] [ 1913 Webster] Follies, continued till old age, do aggrandize. -- J. Hall. [ 1913 Webster]
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. [ 1913 Webster] 2. To make great or greater in power, rank, honor, or wealth; -- applied to persons, countries, etc. [ 1913 Webster] His scheme for aggrandizing his son. -- Prescott. [ 1913 Webster] 3. To make appear great or greater; to exalt. -- Lamb. [ 1913 Webster] Syn: To augment; exalt; promote; advance. [ 1913 Webster] 110 Moby Thesaurus words for " aggrandize": add to, advance, amplify, apotheose, apotheosize, augment, ballyhoo, beatify, beef up, bloat, blow up, boost, broaden, build, build up, bulk, bulk out, burlesque, canonize, caricature, carry too far, crescendo, crown, deify, develop, dignify, dilate, distend, distinguish, draw the longbow, elevate, enlarge, ennoble, enshrine, enthrone, erect, exaggerate, exalt, expand, extend, fatten, fill out, glamorize, glorify, go to extremes, graduate, heighten, hike, hike up, honor, huff, hyperbolize, immortalize, increase, inflate, jack up, jump up, kick upstairs, knight, lay it on, lengthen, lionize, magnify, make legendary, make much of, maximize, multiply, overcharge, overdo, overdraw, overestimate, overpraise, overreach, overreact, oversell, overspeak, overstate, overstress, parlay, pass, pile it on, prefer, promote, puff, puff up, pump, pump up, put up, pyramid, raise, rarefy, saint, sanctify, set up, stretch, stretch the truth, sublime, sufflate, swell, talk big, talk in superlatives, thicken, throne, tout, travesty, up, upgrade, uplift, uprear, widen
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