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Definition of Aggrandise
1. Verb. Add details to. "They won't aggrandise the story "
Specialized synonyms: Glorify
Generic synonyms: Amplify, Exaggerate, Hyperbolise, Hyperbolize, Magnify, Overdraw, Overstate
Derivative terms: Aggrandisement, Aggrandizement, Drama, Embellishment, Embroidery
Definition of Aggrandise
1. Verb. (transitive) To make great; to enlarge; to increase; as, ''to aggrandise our conceptions, authority, distress''. ¹
2. Verb. (transitive) To make great or greater in power, rank, honour or wealth; applied to persons, countries, etc. ¹
3. Verb. (transitive) To make appear great or greater; to exalt. ¹
4. Verb. (intransitive) To increase or become great. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Aggrandise
1. [v -DISED, -DISING, -DISES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Aggrandise
Literary usage of Aggrandise
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. History of the Christian Church: A.D. 64-1517 by James Craigie Robertson (1868)
"... the Prankish prelates contributed to aggrandise Rome by investing it with
universal control in the character of general protector of the '•hurch.1 HL At ..."
2. Memoir of Thomas Addis and Robert Emmet: With Their Ancestors and Immediate by Thomas Addis Emmet (1915)
"... her ram material delivered over, her population drained, her resources exhausted,
her agriculture neglected—all to aggrandise the power from ..."
3. History of the Consulate and the Empire of France Under Napoleon: Forming a by Adolphe Thiers (1845)
"... the Tyrol and Austrian Suabia, to aggrandise Bavaria, Baden, and Wurtemberg—Family
Alliances with these three German Houses—Resistance of the Austrian ..."
4. The London Literary Gazette and Journal of Belles Lettres, Arts, Sciences, Etc (1829)
"... withal overbearing, selfish, proud, treacherous, and unfeeling : one object
she pursued through a long life, to amass wealth and aggrandise her family. ..."
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