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verb

aggrandize

to increase the power, status, or wealth of

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Six example sentences with aggrandize, each labelled with its topic.

  • Each new palace was built to aggrandize the duke, whose actual territory had not grown in thirty years.

    History

  • He restructured three divisions mainly to aggrandize his own office, which gained two hundred staff and a larger budget.

    Business

  • The colonnade was added to aggrandize a modest town hall, making the mayor's building look like a national monument.

    Architecture

  • The governor used the flood relief ceremony to aggrandize himself, standing beside every rescued family for the cameras.

    Politics

  • Each funding announcement seemed written to aggrandize the founder rather than explain what the product actually did.

    Startups

  • The memoir exists mainly to aggrandize its author, who somehow stands at the center of every event of the decade.

    Literature

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