aggrandize - Word of the day

Aggrandize – Word of the Day

Atul Sharma

Pronunciation

əˈɡranˌdīz

Meanings and Sample Sentences

  • to make appear great and greater
    • She aggrandized the company charity works as it was not there to generate revenue.
  • to enhance the power, wealth and/or status
    • He exploited all the resources to aggrandize his company.
  • to give higher value
    • The recent movie based on criminals aggrandized mafia and makes law and order feel like dopes.

Trick to Remember

Aggrandize has GRAND i.e. – grand means huge and “ize” makes its a verb. So broadly means making grand.

Related words

Dignify, Elevate, Magnify, Amplify, Strengthen

More Sentences from Literature

  • He urged women to be the sole participants in these acts, in order to aggrandize the emotional force of the movement.
  • Illumination of manuscripts, as a way of aggrandizing ancient documents, aided their preservation and informative value in an era when new ruling classes were no longer literate.