| 单词 | aggrandize |
| 释义 | aggrandize (once / 4161 pages) v If you are a window washer, but you refer to yourself as a "vista enhancement specialist," then you are aggrandizing your job title — that is, making it sound greater than it is. The verb aggrandize not only means "to make appear greater"; it can also be used to mean simply "to make greater." If you buy an estate and sink millions of dollars into its improvement, then you are actually aggrandizing the estate. If you are making yourself seem greater, then people may say you are "self-aggrandizing." WORD FAMILYaggrandize: aggrandized, aggrandizement, aggrandizes, aggrandizing+/aggrandizement: aggrandizements, self-aggrandizement/aggrandizing: self-aggrandizing USAGE EXAMPLES“It sounds self aggrandizing. But it’s a comment that didn’t happen the same way before the election. It’s a specific reaction.” New York Times(Nov 30, 2016) And would the predictable reaction have been helpful, or only further aggrandized terrorism and divided society? US News(Oct 26, 2016) The result is arbitrary enforcement that aggrandizes prosecutors at the expense of the rule of law. Wall Street Journal(Oct 04, 2016) v add details to Syn|Hypo|Hyper aggrandise, blow up, dramatise, dramatize, embellish, embroider, lard, pad glorify cause to seem more splendid amplify, exaggerate, hyperbolise, hyperbolize, magnify, overdraw, overstate to enlarge beyond bounds or the truth |
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