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Aggrandise

verb
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Add details to.  Synonyms: aggrandize, blow up, dramatise, dramatize, embellish, embroider, lard, pad.



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... was come. His wars had been wholly selfish. To aggrandise his own name, he had covered Europe with blood. To place himself at the head of earthly power, he had broken faith with Turkey, with Russia, with Germany, and with Spain. The blood, the spoil, and the misery ...
— Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, No. 382, October 1847 • Various


Words linked to "Aggrandise" :   blow up, magnify, glorify, aggrandize, hyperbolize, hyperbolise, overdraw, amplify, exaggerate, overstate


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