Aggrandize: Definition and part of speech

Aggrandize

  1. v. i. To increase or become great.
  2. v. t. To make great; to enlarge; to increase; as, to aggrandize our conceptions, authority, distress.
  3. v. t. To make great or greater in power, rank, honor, or wealth; — applied to persons, countries, etc.
  4. v. t. To make appear great or greater; to exalt.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

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