{f} make bigger, make larger; widen; extend; increase the power or status of; increase the wealth of; intensify or exaggerate the reputation of someone in an artificial manner; make something look greater; exaggerate, add details to (also aggrandise)
To make great; to enlarge; to increase; as, to aggrandize our conceptions, authority, distress
ag·gran·dize aggrandizes aggrandizing aggrandized in BRIT, also use aggrandise disapproval To aggrandize someone means to make them seem richer, more powerful, and more important than they really are. To aggrandize a building means to make it more impressive. At the dinner table, my father would go on and on, showing off, aggrandising himself plans to aggrandise the building
{f} make bigger, make larger; widen; extend; increase the power or status of; increase the wealth of; intensify or exaggerate the reputation of someone in an artificial manner; make something look greater; add details to (also aggrandize)
The act of aggrandizing, or the state of being aggrandized or exalted in power, rank, honor, or wealth; exaltation; enlargement; as, the emperor seeks only the aggrandizement of his own family
ag·gran·dize·ment in BRIT, also use aggrandisement disapproval If someone does something for aggrandizement, they do it in order to get power, wealth, and importance for themselves. It would be the first time in human history that economic necessity has prevailed over military aggrandizement. see also self-aggrandizement. when a person or country tries to increase their power or importance - used to show disapproval (agrandissement, from agrandir, from grandir )