to aggrandize
5
9.5
- verb
- /əˈɡrændaɪz/
- Formal
:
agrandar
- Faith decries the self-aggrandizing instinct of scholars who take a proprietary attitude toward their fields of expertise.
- self-aggrandizing
- aggrandize its own role
I love taming brats, but destroying her mental health just to aggrandize my ego is not really worth it to me.
- I love taming brats, but destroying her mental health just to aggrandize my ego is not really worth it to me.
- That to be prideful was wrong, but in the same breath you would see that narcissistic parent self aggrandize and always make it about themselves.
- They do it to aggrandize themselves, to make themselves look superior in every way.
- They're both aggrandizing creatures, and so let's not get sentimental about them.
- Is it that they see war as an opportunity to aggrandize their own power, their prestige, their wealth at the expense of others?
- I'm not a influencer or a thought leader or whatever else silly self aggrandizing label people put on their LinkedIn.
- They have stupid, self aggrandizing, lazy, hard partisans who don't care about America.
- But if you're really committed to, to a 'cause you're not going to do it in a way that's destructive and self aggrandizing, right?
- It's, it feels so it, it, it feels too self aggrandizing.
- As an added cherry on top of all of this, we get herself aggrandizing rewrite of her own behavior.
- When I started this business, I was kind of in and out of it in my head because it seemed self aggrandizing to me.
Examples
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Praise singers publicly aggrandize their patrons' honor.
Academic text (2009) -
So Judea at this time was on the border between these two empires, and they were constantly fighting, trying to aggrandize their own kingdoms.
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But they aren't about the larger success of the business or organization, but rather to aggrandize themselves.
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Is it that they see war as an opportunity to aggrandize their own power, their prestige, their wealth at the expense of others?
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Accordingly, judicial review is a necessary check on a system that now aggrandizes power in the Executive.
Academic text (2017) -
Likewise, bilateral donors should cease supporting those who self-aggrandize or abuse human rights.
Academic text (2000) -
Her speech has, again, the paradoxical effect of both aggrandizing his image and ridiculing his presumptuousness.
Academic text (2004) -
More broadly, Labille-Guiard aggrandized the depicted space by suggesting that the room continues an untold distance to the left.
Academic text (2007) -
Some leaders allude to possessing supernatural powers in order to self-aggrandize, but this can also backfire.
Academic text (2013) -
Many companies aggrandize their products by highlighting unrealistic benefits.
Synonyms
258
3.1
To say something is larger, better, or worse than it really is
86
5.2
To make a person or thing seem better and more important than they really are
70
4.2
Say something is bigger or more important than it really is
53
4.4
To promote something with exaggerated, flashy advertising to get attention
47
4.2
To make something seem more important or bigger than it really is
34
4.6
To make something seem more important or serious than it really is
20
3.4
To make something seem larger or more important than it is
19
6.1
To add extra details to a story, sometimes making it less true
19
6.5
To add extra, unnecessary details to make something seem bigger or better
15
4.2
To make something seem more exciting or important than it really is
13
4.6
Make something seem more important or serious than it really is
13
4.1
To say that something is better or more important than it really is
12
5.8
To make someone or something look more attractive and exciting than they really are
9
5.6
To make something seem bigger or more important than it really is
9
4.3
Make something seem more important or impressive than it is
8
5.5
Treat something as more important than it should be
7
4.9
Make something seem better than it really is
5
5.3
To make a story seem better than it really is
4
3.7
To make something seem more important or bigger than it is
4
5.8
Praise something more than it really deserves
3
6.4
Treat a small problem as if it were very serious
3
5.5
To add extra details to a story that often make it less true
2
5.8
Treat something as more important or serious than it is
1
5.1
Make something seem much bigger or more important than it is
1
5.9
To make something seem more important or serious than it is
1
7.7
To add extra details to speech or writing to make it more interesting
1
8.3
Act as if something is much more difficult or important than it is
1
5.4
To make something seem much worse or bigger than it is
1
7.9
To make something seem much bigger or more important than it really is
1
6.3
Make something seem more attractive than it really is
Describe something as more important or impressive than it really is
To make a story sound more exciting or important than it really is
To make someone seem like a god or without faults
Antonyms
How Important
258
3.1
34
4.6
- Formal
5
9.5
19
6.1
424
4.0
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Aggrandize comes from two simple parts: a- meaning 'to' and grand meaning 'big' or 'great', the same grand you know in English, so to aggrandize is to make someone or something seem bigger or more important.