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aggrandize (verb), aggrandizes; aggrandized; aggrandizing
1. To enhance or to increase power, reputation, prestige, or stature: Being elected to the highest office of the land certainly aggrandized the sense of importance for Frank's uncle.
2. To exaggerate or to embellish an accomplishment: When describing the fish that he caught, Morgan's nephew, Mike, tends to aggrandize the length and weight of the fish.
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2. To exaggerate or to embellish an accomplishment: When describing the fish that he caught, Morgan's nephew, Mike, tends to aggrandize the length and weight of the fish.
![To make something great or greater than it actually is.](http://www.wordinfo.info/words/images/aggrandize-1.jpg)
![To embellish or aggrandize something.](http://www.wordinfo.info/words/images/aggrandize-2.jpg)
![To exaggerate.](http://www.wordinfo.info/words/images/aggrandize-3.jpg)
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“aggrandizing”
To make something seem great or greater by embellishing it, exaggerating it, or making it seem much better than it really is. (3)
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