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AGGRANDISE

Dictionary entry overview: What does aggrandise mean?

• AGGRANDISE (verb)
The verb AGGRANDISE has 1 sense:

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Familiarity information: AGGRANDISE used as a verb is very rare.

Dictionary entry details

• AGGRANDISE (verb)

Sense 1

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Meaning:

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Classified under:

Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing

Synonyms:

aggrandise; aggrandize; embellish; pad; embroider; lard; dramatise; dramatize; blow up

Hypernyms (to "aggrandise" is one way to...):

amplify; exaggerate; hyerbolise; hyperbolize; magnify; overdraw; overstate (to enlarge beyond bounds or the truth)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "aggrandise"):

glorify (cause to seem more splendid)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s something with something

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AGGRANDISE: related words searches

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