See aggrandize in Webster's New World Roget's A-Z Thesaurus II
verb
To make or become greater or larger:
amplify, augment, boost, build, build up, burgeon, enlarge, escalate, expand, extend, grow, increase, magnify, mount, multiply, proliferate, rise, run up, snowball, soar, swell, upsurge, wax. (Informal) beef up. See increaseTo raise to a high position or status:
apotheosize, dignify, elevate, ennoble, exalt, glorify, magnify, uplift. Idiom: put on a pedestal. See rise
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