Aggrandize

[AgĀ·gran*dize]

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.

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To make great; to enlarge; to increase; as, to aggrandize our conceptions, authority, distress.

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v. t.
To make great; to enlarge; to increase; as, to aggrandize our conceptions, authority, distress.

v. t.
To make great or greater in power, rank, honor, or wealth; -- applied to persons, countries, etc.

v. t.
To make appear great or greater; to exalt.

v. i.
To increase or become great.


Aggrandize

Ag"gran*dize , v. t. [imp. & p. p. Aggrandized ; p. pr. & vb. n. Aggrandizing .] [F. agrandir; '85 (L. ad) + grandir to increase, L. grandire, fr. grandis great. See Grand, and cf. Finish.] 1. To make great; to enlarge; to increase; as, to aggrandize our conceptions, authority, distress. 2. To make great or greater in power, rank, honor, or wealth; -- applied to persons, countries, etc.
His scheme for aggrandizing his son.
3. To make appear great or greater; to exalt. Lamb. Syn. -- To augment; exalt; promote; advance.

Aggrandize

Ag"gran*dize, v. i. To increase or become great. [Obs.]
Follies, continued till old age, do aggrandize.

To make great; to enlarge; to increase; as, to aggrandize our conceptions, authority, distress.

To increase or become great.

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