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单词 aggrandized
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aggrandizedadj.

Brit. /əˈɡrandʌɪzd/, U.S. /əˈɡrænˌdaɪzd/
Forms: 1600s– aggrandized, 1700s– aggrandised.
Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: aggrandize v., -ed suffix1.
Etymology: < aggrandize v. + -ed suffix1. N.E.D. (1884) gives the pronunciation as (æ·græ̆ndəizd) /ˈæɡrændaɪzd/.
1. Made larger or greater, esp. in size or intensity; magnified, increased.
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the world > relative properties > quantity > increase in quantity, amount, or degree > [adjective] > increased
grown1340
added?a1425
multiplied1463
increased1552
amplified1573
vantaged1578
augmented1605
swelleda1616
swollena1631
auct1652
improved1661
aggrandized1689
manifolded1767
jacked-up1920
the world > relative properties > quantity > increase in quantity, amount, or degree > [adjective] > increasing in intensity or degree > increased in intensity or degree
strengthened1578
intended1590
exasperate1601
intenseda1658
aggrandized1689
heightened1701
intensated1831
intensified1862
stepped1933
1689 G. Harvey Art of curing Dis. by Expectation vii. 49 The Stone so aggrandized, that throwing the Patient into a worse fit than ever, kills him.
1722 W. Wollaston Relig. of Nature v. 110 Fame and reports may proceed..from small matters aggrandized.
1809 Port Folio Nov. 412 The confluence of the Shenandoah and the Potomac, forms a beautiful spectacle:..the aggrandized Potomac, with a force accelerated by its new auxiliary, proudly pursues its rapid, resistless race.
1861 Macphail's Edinb. Eccl. Jrnl. 30 51 He will [demand]..the cession of Genoa and the Isle of Sardinia as a counterpoise to the aggrandised power of Victor Emanual.
1908 G. Meredith Last Poems in Daily Chron. 9 Dec. 1/5 Overshadowingly (Aggrandised, monstrous in his grinning mask Of hypocritical Peace), inveterate Moloch Remains the great example.
1976 M. J. Lasky Utopia & Revol. i. 12 The temptations of aggrandized power among the intellectual spokesmen of utopian excellence have proved had to resist.
2007 N. Guyatt Providence & Invention U.S. ii. iv. 165 Skipping ahead to ‘the middle of this century’, Ingersoll looked out on a massively aggrandized United States, stretching from Canada to Florida and from the Atlantic to the distant West.
2. Increased in status or importance; elevated, exalted.
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the mind > attention and judgement > importance > [adjective] > making greater in importance > made greater in importance
uphovenc1175
uplifteda1300
uplift1303
greata1400
stately1586
aggrandized1790
weighted1879
high-level1909
1790 E. Burke Refl. Revol. in France 293 Who certainly would not have limited an aggrandized creature, as they have done a submitting antagonist. View more context for this quotation
1877 Times 16 Nov. 9/2 Austria may dislike the establishment on her frontier of an aggrandized or new Court.
1914 T. D. West Efficient Man xiv. 106 (heading) Needful Subjugation of Aggrandized Self-importance.
1959 J. H. Herz Internat. Politics in Atomic Age iii. xi. 277 The pax Romana and similar peace situations established from time to time by aggrandized and powerful nations.
2003 Oxoniensia 67 22 Clusters of field systems in the Upper Thames Valley,..each cluster situated upstream from an anomalous site: an ‘aggrandised enclosure’ or island settlement.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2012; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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