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.