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Another word for aggrandize

aggrandize Synonyms

aggrandize

v.

To exalt
acclaim, applaud, glorify; see praise 1.
To increase
enlarge, intensify, extend; see increase 1.

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Another word for aggrandize

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 increase
To 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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Alexander carried on a double policy, always ready to seize opportunities to aggrandize his family.
It became the nobler ambition of Julius to aggrandize the church, and to reassume the protectorate of the Italian people.
His intent was to become sole lord and to aggrandize his tiny principality.
About 1323 Louis had secured the mark of Brandenburg for his son Louis, and he was eager to aggrandize his family in other directions.
The conflict of the priesthood with the kingdoms Alexander and nations that were tending to aggrandize them- III.

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