Definition of aggrandize in English:

aggrandize

(British aggrandise)

verb əˈɡrandʌɪzəˈɡrænˌdaɪz

[with object]

1Increase the power, status, or wealth of.
扩大…的势力；增加…的财富；提高…的地位
an action intended to aggrandize the Frankish dynasty
为增强法兰克王朝势力的行动。
Example sentencesExamples
- They executed riots within the school over specific grievances or to aggrandize their own power within the school population.
- Religion itself can be another form of ego gratification - a kind of spiritual consumerism that focuses on having spiritual experiences to aggrandize the self, spiritual hedonism, but hedonism nonetheless.
- The act of waiting, although indiscernible to an outside observer, disrupts the illusion of time by erasing the past, diminishing the present, and aggrandizing the future when that which is waited for is expected to appear.
- All too often, business nowadays sees government as a sea of anti-progress ‘Sir Humphreys’ who generate red tape, obfuscate at every turn and aggrandise unaccountable power to themselves behind closed doors.
- Rather, they propose to cross the frontier for no better reason than to aggrandize themselves and to prolong the subjection of their own population.
- Since the Yankees had early taken to the idea of imposing communal civic virtue and obedience through the public schools, they were particularly receptive to this new reason for aggrandizing public education.
- And Gank isn't without brothers in arms among Cleveland independents manning the front lines in the battle to aggrandize the Rust Belt, as Cash Money and No Limit did the South.
- As the government has assumed power over monetary policy in contemptuous disregard of the expressed wishes of the savers (to say nothing of the provisions of the Constitution), it aggrandizes power.
- But she has used that skill to protect her friends and aggrandize herself.
- I wish every young fella with my background would know that it is a joy to learn and to aggrandise yourself.
- And also getting a free programme aggrandising myself printed in the process.
- Governments are committed only to perpetuating and aggrandizing their own power, if need be, by trampling on the Constitution.
- For the most part the results have been extremely positive and a timely end has been brought to anti-competitive practices that impose unnecessary costs on business and aggrandise service providers who create little or no wealth.
- The party, on the other hand, needs the army to win the war and thus to stabilize and even aggrandize its own power.
- For them, the individual was of value ‘only if he was a part of the political fabric and able to contribute to its uses as though it were the end of his being to aggrandise the state’.
- The Coens unashamedly celebrate and aggrandize American culture and sense of place, using it to enhance stories that convey and explore love, betrayal and ambition.
- It is probable that the acquisition of bronze, silver, and gold vessels by aggrandizing Mycenaean elites during the beginning years of the Late Bronze Age resulted from their participation in such festivals while on Crete.
- Some questioned whether Tarkin's methods were merely bids to aggrandize his own status, in defiance of the Emperor's ultimate goal.
- Another group put in place of owners would still wield virtually complete power, and aggrandize itself above workers.
- By structure and inclination, the new Europe would focus on aggrandizing EU power at the expense of NATO, the foundation of the transatlantic security relationship for more than half a century.
Synonyms
exaggerated, magnified, aggrandized, unwarranted, immoderate, pumped up, overblown, overripe, overstated, overplayed
1. 1.1 Enhance the reputation of (someone) beyond what is justified by the facts.
  夸大，吹捧
  he hoped to aggrandize himself by dying a hero's death
  他想通过英勇的死亡提高自己的名声。
  Example sentencesExamples
  In their study of human society, the anthropologists aggrandize themselves to the observational perspective of gods even as they reduce humans to little more than animals.
  Rather than aggrandizing its subject, this film is all about contextualizing a man hounded by comics fans and ‘broken-down hippie pest guys.’
  Most of these stories do seem to be romanticised hindsight as the chemist or his pupil or obituarist places the discovery in a human context that renders largely superfluous any rivals or spurious steps, or aggrandises the man into a hero.
  In other words, in the name of ‘taking the schools out of politics,’ they hoped to aggrandize the educational bureaucracy and maintain its power virtually unchecked by any popular or democratic control.
  For example, the community college baccalaureate is a result of practitioners' political agenda to aggrandize their institutions.
  Instead, the program's format is similar to a sporting event, as indicated by the some-what aggrandizing designation of the show's set as ‘Kitchen Stadium.’
  Most of the information was really not the specific kind of factual information one might think, but rather feature and fluff pieces that seemed designed to aggrandize the agency.
  That Langford aggrandized the role that he and the others played in the birth of Yellowstone is not surprising; history is replete with similar examples.
  However good their intentions, they'd risk aggrandising themselves and diminishing or insulting their subject.
  It also indulged complexity to aggrandize the rich.
  Rather, this is an excerpt taken from his address to the convention in his race for governor, where 2500 supporters aggrandized him with numerous standing ovations.
  Again, people say they are lame or opportunistic for aggrandizing themselves by trying to rally a world-wide coalition in opposition to us.
  Scherman's images, painted on a heroic scale and with muscular intensity, have that same aggrandizing effect, even as they depict anti-heroes, culprits, demonic strategists.
  The comparison with Seurat's Grande Jatte, intended to aggrandize Signac's work, has the opposite effect.
  It is time to look into this from a safety angle and stop aggrandising the ownership of these gadgets until you can cover consumers' fears about their safety.
  By rallying behind a non-elected figure, they say, her supporters run the risk of giving up on the political process entirely, or aggrandizing her rather than furthering the issues for which she stands.
  But there are people who have political goals, who want to aggrandize themselves or their organizations or their movements.
  The notion that the left-wing writers of the 1930s formed a homogenous clique of interchangeable, mutually aggrandizing talents has become one of the cliches of twentieth-century literary history.
  Tiso is wary of being accused of aggrandising his adventure.
  It is a foolish question, for it assumes that these writers are somehow aggrandising themselves.
  Synonyms
  enhance, make richer, improve, add to, augment, supplement, complement, boost, upgrade, reinforce

Derivatives

aggrandizement

noun əˈɡrandɪzmənt

I fear the project will be another Millennium Dome - an over-ambitious monument to municipal aggrandizement which sets back arts funding in the borough for generations.
Example sentencesExamples
- This despite being part of a school system which demonstrably does not waste much of its money on bureaucracy and aggrandizement of its own honchos; the system has no trouble educating half of its students.
- Long terms in the office have not done Africa any good, except ensuring personal aggrandisement and enrichment,’ he said.
- First, their countries seek no aggrandizement, territorial or other;
- Too many leaders are in it for personal enrichment or aggrandizement, a show-me-the-money style of leadership that has led directly to today's landscape of wrecked corporations and indicted CEOs.

aggrandizer

noun

This special status may have been limited to specific aggrandizers or to corporate groups in which the status of the aggrandizer was conveyed to his entire family or lineage.
Example sentencesExamples
- Hayden's model of patriarchal aggrandizer evolution is not entirely consistent with the Riverside data and cannot account for the lack of wealthy adult male burials.
- Upstarts, such as alpha-type bullies and despotic self-aggrandizers, are eventually restrained, as are overly selfish free-riders and odd-ball deviants.
- Since Riverside represents approximately 600 years of use, however, why are there no other lavish burials of adult male aggrandizers?
- Thus, he is not running as a Self-Aggrandizer, as anyone who saw his video announcement can tell.

Origin

Mid 17th century (in the general sense 'increase, magnify'): from French agrandiss-, lengthened stem of agrandir, probably from Italian aggrandire, from Latin grandis 'large'. The ending was changed by association with verbs ending in -ize.

Definition of aggrandize in US English:

aggrandize

(British aggrandise)

verbəˈɡranˌdīzəˈɡrænˌdaɪz

[with object]

1Increase the power, status, or wealth of.
扩大…的势力；增加…的财富；提高…的地位
an action intended to aggrandize the Frankish dynasty
为增强法兰克王朝势力的行动。
Example sentencesExamples
- Since the Yankees had early taken to the idea of imposing communal civic virtue and obedience through the public schools, they were particularly receptive to this new reason for aggrandizing public education.
- And Gank isn't without brothers in arms among Cleveland independents manning the front lines in the battle to aggrandize the Rust Belt, as Cash Money and No Limit did the South.
- The Coens unashamedly celebrate and aggrandize American culture and sense of place, using it to enhance stories that convey and explore love, betrayal and ambition.
- For the most part the results have been extremely positive and a timely end has been brought to anti-competitive practices that impose unnecessary costs on business and aggrandise service providers who create little or no wealth.
- Another group put in place of owners would still wield virtually complete power, and aggrandize itself above workers.
- All too often, business nowadays sees government as a sea of anti-progress ‘Sir Humphreys’ who generate red tape, obfuscate at every turn and aggrandise unaccountable power to themselves behind closed doors.
- As the government has assumed power over monetary policy in contemptuous disregard of the expressed wishes of the savers (to say nothing of the provisions of the Constitution), it aggrandizes power.
- Governments are committed only to perpetuating and aggrandizing their own power, if need be, by trampling on the Constitution.
- But she has used that skill to protect her friends and aggrandize herself.
- And also getting a free programme aggrandising myself printed in the process.
- For them, the individual was of value ‘only if he was a part of the political fabric and able to contribute to its uses as though it were the end of his being to aggrandise the state’.
- By structure and inclination, the new Europe would focus on aggrandizing EU power at the expense of NATO, the foundation of the transatlantic security relationship for more than half a century.
- The act of waiting, although indiscernible to an outside observer, disrupts the illusion of time by erasing the past, diminishing the present, and aggrandizing the future when that which is waited for is expected to appear.
- Religion itself can be another form of ego gratification - a kind of spiritual consumerism that focuses on having spiritual experiences to aggrandize the self, spiritual hedonism, but hedonism nonetheless.
- Some questioned whether Tarkin's methods were merely bids to aggrandize his own status, in defiance of the Emperor's ultimate goal.
- The party, on the other hand, needs the army to win the war and thus to stabilize and even aggrandize its own power.
- Rather, they propose to cross the frontier for no better reason than to aggrandize themselves and to prolong the subjection of their own population.
- They executed riots within the school over specific grievances or to aggrandize their own power within the school population.
- It is probable that the acquisition of bronze, silver, and gold vessels by aggrandizing Mycenaean elites during the beginning years of the Late Bronze Age resulted from their participation in such festivals while on Crete.
- I wish every young fella with my background would know that it is a joy to learn and to aggrandise yourself.
Synonyms
exaggerated, magnified, aggrandized, unwarranted, immoderate, pumped up, overblown, overripe, overstated, overplayed
1. 1.1 Enhance the reputation of (someone) beyond what is justified by the facts.
  夸大，吹捧
  he hoped to aggrandize himself by dying a hero's death
  他想通过英勇的死亡提高自己的名声。
  Example sentencesExamples
  Most of the information was really not the specific kind of factual information one might think, but rather feature and fluff pieces that seemed designed to aggrandize the agency.
  But there are people who have political goals, who want to aggrandize themselves or their organizations or their movements.
  It is time to look into this from a safety angle and stop aggrandising the ownership of these gadgets until you can cover consumers' fears about their safety.
  For example, the community college baccalaureate is a result of practitioners' political agenda to aggrandize their institutions.
  The notion that the left-wing writers of the 1930s formed a homogenous clique of interchangeable, mutually aggrandizing talents has become one of the cliches of twentieth-century literary history.
  It also indulged complexity to aggrandize the rich.
  However good their intentions, they'd risk aggrandising themselves and diminishing or insulting their subject.
  In their study of human society, the anthropologists aggrandize themselves to the observational perspective of gods even as they reduce humans to little more than animals.
  Tiso is wary of being accused of aggrandising his adventure.
  That Langford aggrandized the role that he and the others played in the birth of Yellowstone is not surprising; history is replete with similar examples.
  In other words, in the name of ‘taking the schools out of politics,’ they hoped to aggrandize the educational bureaucracy and maintain its power virtually unchecked by any popular or democratic control.
  By rallying behind a non-elected figure, they say, her supporters run the risk of giving up on the political process entirely, or aggrandizing her rather than furthering the issues for which she stands.
  It is a foolish question, for it assumes that these writers are somehow aggrandising themselves.
  Most of these stories do seem to be romanticised hindsight as the chemist or his pupil or obituarist places the discovery in a human context that renders largely superfluous any rivals or spurious steps, or aggrandises the man into a hero.
  Rather, this is an excerpt taken from his address to the convention in his race for governor, where 2500 supporters aggrandized him with numerous standing ovations.
  Again, people say they are lame or opportunistic for aggrandizing themselves by trying to rally a world-wide coalition in opposition to us.
  Rather than aggrandizing its subject, this film is all about contextualizing a man hounded by comics fans and ‘broken-down hippie pest guys.’
  Scherman's images, painted on a heroic scale and with muscular intensity, have that same aggrandizing effect, even as they depict anti-heroes, culprits, demonic strategists.
  Instead, the program's format is similar to a sporting event, as indicated by the some-what aggrandizing designation of the show's set as ‘Kitchen Stadium.’
  The comparison with Seurat's Grande Jatte, intended to aggrandize Signac's work, has the opposite effect.
  Synonyms
  enhance, make richer, improve, add to, augment, supplement, complement, boost, upgrade, reinforce

Origin

Mid 17th century (in the general sense ‘increase, magnify’): from French agrandiss-, lengthened stem of agrandir, probably from Italian aggrandire, from Latin grandis ‘large’. The ending was changed by association with verbs ending in -ize.

词汇	aggrandize
释义	Definition of aggrandize in English: aggrandize (British aggrandise) verb əˈɡrandʌɪzəˈɡrænˌdaɪz [with object] 1Increase the power, status, or wealth of. 扩大…的势力；增加…的财富；提高…的地位 an action intended to aggrandize the Frankish dynasty 为增强法兰克王朝势力的行动。 Example sentencesExamples They executed riots within the school over specific grievances or to aggrandize their own power within the school population. Religion itself can be another form of ego gratification - a kind of spiritual consumerism that focuses on having spiritual experiences to aggrandize the self, spiritual hedonism, but hedonism nonetheless. The act of waiting, although indiscernible to an outside observer, disrupts the illusion of time by erasing the past, diminishing the present, and aggrandizing the future when that which is waited for is expected to appear. All too often, business nowadays sees government as a sea of anti-progress ‘Sir Humphreys’ who generate red tape, obfuscate at every turn and aggrandise unaccountable power to themselves behind closed doors. Rather, they propose to cross the frontier for no better reason than to aggrandize themselves and to prolong the subjection of their own population. Since the Yankees had early taken to the idea of imposing communal civic virtue and obedience through the public schools, they were particularly receptive to this new reason for aggrandizing public education. And Gank isn't without brothers in arms among Cleveland independents manning the front lines in the battle to aggrandize the Rust Belt, as Cash Money and No Limit did the South. As the government has assumed power over monetary policy in contemptuous disregard of the expressed wishes of the savers (to say nothing of the provisions of the Constitution), it aggrandizes power. But she has used that skill to protect her friends and aggrandize herself. I wish every young fella with my background would know that it is a joy to learn and to aggrandise yourself. And also getting a free programme aggrandising myself printed in the process. Governments are committed only to perpetuating and aggrandizing their own power, if need be, by trampling on the Constitution. For the most part the results have been extremely positive and a timely end has been brought to anti-competitive practices that impose unnecessary costs on business and aggrandise service providers who create little or no wealth. The party, on the other hand, needs the army to win the war and thus to stabilize and even aggrandize its own power. For them, the individual was of value ‘only if he was a part of the political fabric and able to contribute to its uses as though it were the end of his being to aggrandise the state’. The Coens unashamedly celebrate and aggrandize American culture and sense of place, using it to enhance stories that convey and explore love, betrayal and ambition. It is probable that the acquisition of bronze, silver, and gold vessels by aggrandizing Mycenaean elites during the beginning years of the Late Bronze Age resulted from their participation in such festivals while on Crete. Some questioned whether Tarkin's methods were merely bids to aggrandize his own status, in defiance of the Emperor's ultimate goal. Another group put in place of owners would still wield virtually complete power, and aggrandize itself above workers. By structure and inclination, the new Europe would focus on aggrandizing EU power at the expense of NATO, the foundation of the transatlantic security relationship for more than half a century. Synonyms exaggerated, magnified, aggrandized, unwarranted, immoderate, pumped up, overblown, overripe, overstated, overplayed 1.1 Enhance the reputation of (someone) beyond what is justified by the facts. 夸大，吹捧 he hoped to aggrandize himself by dying a hero's death 他想通过英勇的死亡提高自己的名声。 Example sentencesExamples In their study of human society, the anthropologists aggrandize themselves to the observational perspective of gods even as they reduce humans to little more than animals. Rather than aggrandizing its subject, this film is all about contextualizing a man hounded by comics fans and ‘broken-down hippie pest guys.’ Most of these stories do seem to be romanticised hindsight as the chemist or his pupil or obituarist places the discovery in a human context that renders largely superfluous any rivals or spurious steps, or aggrandises the man into a hero. In other words, in the name of ‘taking the schools out of politics,’ they hoped to aggrandize the educational bureaucracy and maintain its power virtually unchecked by any popular or democratic control. For example, the community college baccalaureate is a result of practitioners' political agenda to aggrandize their institutions. Instead, the program's format is similar to a sporting event, as indicated by the some-what aggrandizing designation of the show's set as ‘Kitchen Stadium.’ Most of the information was really not the specific kind of factual information one might think, but rather feature and fluff pieces that seemed designed to aggrandize the agency. That Langford aggrandized the role that he and the others played in the birth of Yellowstone is not surprising; history is replete with similar examples. However good their intentions, they'd risk aggrandising themselves and diminishing or insulting their subject. It also indulged complexity to aggrandize the rich. Rather, this is an excerpt taken from his address to the convention in his race for governor, where 2500 supporters aggrandized him with numerous standing ovations. Again, people say they are lame or opportunistic for aggrandizing themselves by trying to rally a world-wide coalition in opposition to us. Scherman's images, painted on a heroic scale and with muscular intensity, have that same aggrandizing effect, even as they depict anti-heroes, culprits, demonic strategists. The comparison with Seurat's Grande Jatte, intended to aggrandize Signac's work, has the opposite effect. It is time to look into this from a safety angle and stop aggrandising the ownership of these gadgets until you can cover consumers' fears about their safety. By rallying behind a non-elected figure, they say, her supporters run the risk of giving up on the political process entirely, or aggrandizing her rather than furthering the issues for which she stands. But there are people who have political goals, who want to aggrandize themselves or their organizations or their movements. The notion that the left-wing writers of the 1930s formed a homogenous clique of interchangeable, mutually aggrandizing talents has become one of the cliches of twentieth-century literary history. Tiso is wary of being accused of aggrandising his adventure. It is a foolish question, for it assumes that these writers are somehow aggrandising themselves. Synonyms enhance, make richer, improve, add to, augment, supplement, complement, boost, upgrade, reinforce Derivatives aggrandizement noun əˈɡrandɪzmənt I fear the project will be another Millennium Dome - an over-ambitious monument to municipal aggrandizement which sets back arts funding in the borough for generations. Example sentencesExamples This despite being part of a school system which demonstrably does not waste much of its money on bureaucracy and aggrandizement of its own honchos; the system has no trouble educating half of its students. Long terms in the office have not done Africa any good, except ensuring personal aggrandisement and enrichment,’ he said. First, their countries seek no aggrandizement, territorial or other; Too many leaders are in it for personal enrichment or aggrandizement, a show-me-the-money style of leadership that has led directly to today's landscape of wrecked corporations and indicted CEOs. aggrandizer noun This special status may have been limited to specific aggrandizers or to corporate groups in which the status of the aggrandizer was conveyed to his entire family or lineage. Example sentencesExamples Hayden's model of patriarchal aggrandizer evolution is not entirely consistent with the Riverside data and cannot account for the lack of wealthy adult male burials. Upstarts, such as alpha-type bullies and despotic self-aggrandizers, are eventually restrained, as are overly selfish free-riders and odd-ball deviants. Since Riverside represents approximately 600 years of use, however, why are there no other lavish burials of adult male aggrandizers? Thus, he is not running as a Self-Aggrandizer, as anyone who saw his video announcement can tell. Origin Mid 17th century (in the general sense 'increase, magnify'): from French agrandiss-, lengthened stem of agrandir, probably from Italian aggrandire, from Latin grandis 'large'. The ending was changed by association with verbs ending in -ize. Definition of aggrandize in US English: aggrandize (British aggrandise) verbəˈɡranˌdīzəˈɡrænˌdaɪz [with object] 1Increase the power, status, or wealth of. 扩大…的势力；增加…的财富；提高…的地位 an action intended to aggrandize the Frankish dynasty 为增强法兰克王朝势力的行动。 Example sentencesExamples Since the Yankees had early taken to the idea of imposing communal civic virtue and obedience through the public schools, they were particularly receptive to this new reason for aggrandizing public education. And Gank isn't without brothers in arms among Cleveland independents manning the front lines in the battle to aggrandize the Rust Belt, as Cash Money and No Limit did the South. The Coens unashamedly celebrate and aggrandize American culture and sense of place, using it to enhance stories that convey and explore love, betrayal and ambition. For the most part the results have been extremely positive and a timely end has been brought to anti-competitive practices that impose unnecessary costs on business and aggrandise service providers who create little or no wealth. Another group put in place of owners would still wield virtually complete power, and aggrandize itself above workers. All too often, business nowadays sees government as a sea of anti-progress ‘Sir Humphreys’ who generate red tape, obfuscate at every turn and aggrandise unaccountable power to themselves behind closed doors. As the government has assumed power over monetary policy in contemptuous disregard of the expressed wishes of the savers (to say nothing of the provisions of the Constitution), it aggrandizes power. Governments are committed only to perpetuating and aggrandizing their own power, if need be, by trampling on the Constitution. But she has used that skill to protect her friends and aggrandize herself. And also getting a free programme aggrandising myself printed in the process. For them, the individual was of value ‘only if he was a part of the political fabric and able to contribute to its uses as though it were the end of his being to aggrandise the state’. By structure and inclination, the new Europe would focus on aggrandizing EU power at the expense of NATO, the foundation of the transatlantic security relationship for more than half a century. The act of waiting, although indiscernible to an outside observer, disrupts the illusion of time by erasing the past, diminishing the present, and aggrandizing the future when that which is waited for is expected to appear. Religion itself can be another form of ego gratification - a kind of spiritual consumerism that focuses on having spiritual experiences to aggrandize the self, spiritual hedonism, but hedonism nonetheless. Some questioned whether Tarkin's methods were merely bids to aggrandize his own status, in defiance of the Emperor's ultimate goal. The party, on the other hand, needs the army to win the war and thus to stabilize and even aggrandize its own power. Rather, they propose to cross the frontier for no better reason than to aggrandize themselves and to prolong the subjection of their own population. They executed riots within the school over specific grievances or to aggrandize their own power within the school population. It is probable that the acquisition of bronze, silver, and gold vessels by aggrandizing Mycenaean elites during the beginning years of the Late Bronze Age resulted from their participation in such festivals while on Crete. I wish every young fella with my background would know that it is a joy to learn and to aggrandise yourself. Synonyms exaggerated, magnified, aggrandized, unwarranted, immoderate, pumped up, overblown, overripe, overstated, overplayed 1.1 Enhance the reputation of (someone) beyond what is justified by the facts. 夸大，吹捧 he hoped to aggrandize himself by dying a hero's death 他想通过英勇的死亡提高自己的名声。 Example sentencesExamples Most of the information was really not the specific kind of factual information one might think, but rather feature and fluff pieces that seemed designed to aggrandize the agency. But there are people who have political goals, who want to aggrandize themselves or their organizations or their movements. It is time to look into this from a safety angle and stop aggrandising the ownership of these gadgets until you can cover consumers' fears about their safety. For example, the community college baccalaureate is a result of practitioners' political agenda to aggrandize their institutions. The notion that the left-wing writers of the 1930s formed a homogenous clique of interchangeable, mutually aggrandizing talents has become one of the cliches of twentieth-century literary history. It also indulged complexity to aggrandize the rich. However good their intentions, they'd risk aggrandising themselves and diminishing or insulting their subject. In their study of human society, the anthropologists aggrandize themselves to the observational perspective of gods even as they reduce humans to little more than animals. Tiso is wary of being accused of aggrandising his adventure. That Langford aggrandized the role that he and the others played in the birth of Yellowstone is not surprising; history is replete with similar examples. In other words, in the name of ‘taking the schools out of politics,’ they hoped to aggrandize the educational bureaucracy and maintain its power virtually unchecked by any popular or democratic control. By rallying behind a non-elected figure, they say, her supporters run the risk of giving up on the political process entirely, or aggrandizing her rather than furthering the issues for which she stands. It is a foolish question, for it assumes that these writers are somehow aggrandising themselves. Most of these stories do seem to be romanticised hindsight as the chemist or his pupil or obituarist places the discovery in a human context that renders largely superfluous any rivals or spurious steps, or aggrandises the man into a hero. Rather, this is an excerpt taken from his address to the convention in his race for governor, where 2500 supporters aggrandized him with numerous standing ovations. Again, people say they are lame or opportunistic for aggrandizing themselves by trying to rally a world-wide coalition in opposition to us. Rather than aggrandizing its subject, this film is all about contextualizing a man hounded by comics fans and ‘broken-down hippie pest guys.’ Scherman's images, painted on a heroic scale and with muscular intensity, have that same aggrandizing effect, even as they depict anti-heroes, culprits, demonic strategists. Instead, the program's format is similar to a sporting event, as indicated by the some-what aggrandizing designation of the show's set as ‘Kitchen Stadium.’ The comparison with Seurat's Grande Jatte, intended to aggrandize Signac's work, has the opposite effect. Synonyms enhance, make richer, improve, add to, augment, supplement, complement, boost, upgrade, reinforce Origin Mid 17th century (in the general sense ‘increase, magnify’): from French agrandiss-, lengthened stem of agrandir, probably from Italian aggrandire, from Latin grandis ‘large’. The ending was changed by association with verbs ending in -ize.
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