Aggrandize

Definition: Aggrandize

Aggrandize

Verb

1. Add details to.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "aggrandize" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1517. (references)

Synonyms: Aggrandize

Expansion

Render larger; (large; ); expand, spread, extend, aggrandize, distend, develop, amplify, spread out, widen, magnify, rarefy, inflate, puff, blow up, stuff, pad, cram; exaggerate; fatten.

Increase

Aggrandize; raise, exalt; deepen, heighten; strengthen; intensify, enhance, magnify, redouble; aggravate, exaggerate; exasperate, exacerbate; add fuel to the flame, oleum addere camino, superadd; (add); spread; (disperse).

Repute

Give honor to, do honor to, pay honor to, render honor to; honor, accredit, pay regard to, dignify, glorify; sing praises to; (approve); lock up to; exalt, aggrandize, elevate, nobilitate.

Crosswords: Aggrandize

Albanian

zmadhoj (amplify, augment, enhance, enlarge, exaggerate, extend, heighten, increase, magnify, overcharge, overcolor, overcolour, overdo, overdraw, overstate, redouble, salt, stretch), përforcoj (add, confirm, engrain, establish, exalt, extend, follow up, fortify, gain a foothold, grow strong, grow stronger, increase, redouble, re-enforce, reinforce, strengthen, strut, truss, underpin). (various references)

Arabic 

‏كبر (amplify, augment, bigness, bulkiness, enlarge, grow, grow old, grow up, increase, magnify), ‏وسع (amplify, broaden, contain, develop, dilate, enlarge, expand, extend, flare, flare up, splay, widen), ‏بجل (consider, dignify, glorify, hallow, look up to, revere, venerate, worship). (various references)

Bulgarian 

увеличавам (accrete, accumulate, add to, amplify, augment, blow up, enlarge, expand, improve, increase, magnify, multiply, put up, swell), възвеличавам (glamor, glamorize, glamour, glamourize), засилвам (accelerate, confirm, grow strong, intensify, invigorate, strengthen, thrive), превъзнасям (cry up, emblazon, flatter, overpraise, rhapsodize, vaunt), повишавам (advance, elevate, enhance, erect, heighten, increase, jump, key up, prefer, promote, put up, rack, raise, up). (various references)

Chinese 

强化 (aggrandise, Aggrandized, Aggrandizing). (various references)

Czech

zvìtšit (add to, augment, blow up, bring up, enlarge, expand, heighten, magnify, widen). (various references)

Dutch

vergroten (augment, enlarge, increase), uitbreiden (augment, enlarge, extend, increase, strech out), uitbouwen (augment, enlarge, increase). (various references)

Faeroese

vaksa um (augment, enlarge, increase), økja (augment, enlarge, increase). (various references)

Farsi 

افزودن (Add, Adjoin, Amplify, Append, Augment, Eke, Enhance, Imp, Increase, Inset, Redouble), بزرگ کردن (Amplify, Dilate, Distend, Enlarge, Gross, Heave). (various references)

French

agrandir. (various references)

Frisian

fergrutsje (augment, enlarge, increase). (various references)

German

vermehren (accrete, augment, breed, enhance, increase, multiply, to accrete, to aggrandize, to augment, to increase, to increase (in)). (various references)

Greek 

μεγαλώνω (draw out, grow, grow in stature, grow up, magnify, raise, work up). (various references)

Hungarian

nagyít (augment, blow up, enlarge, exaggerate, increase, to cut it fat, to draw the long bow, to enlarge, to exaggerate), megnagyít (to expand), magasabb rangra emel. (various references)

Indonesian

memperluas kekuasaan. (various references)

Italian

ingrandire (aggrandise, augment, become larger, enlarge, exaggerate, expand, grow, increase, magnify). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

押し広める (to aggrandize, to extend by force). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

おしひろめる (to aggrandize, to extend by force). (various references)

Papiamen

amplia (augment, enlarge, increase), oumentá (augment, enlarge, increase). (various references)

Pig Latin

aggrandizeay.(various references)

Portuguese

aumentar (accrete, accrue, add, amplify, augment, develop, double, eke, enhance, enlarge, expand, explode, get about, go up, grow, heighten, increase, inflate, intensify, lengthen, magnify, mark up, raise, redouble, redound, rise, steepen, stiffen, thicken, up, wax). (various references)

Romanian

ridica (advance, appear, arise, arrest, ascend, assemble, balloon, bring up, build, carry up, collect, construct, convene, create, draw the cloth, elevate, encash, enhance, erect, found, get up, heave, hoist, interpose, kick up, lift, loop, Mount, muster, perk up, pick up, pitch, pose, prong, pry, put, put up, raise, receive, remove, resound, rise, round up, salt, set up, shovel, start, step up, stick up, straighten, strike, suspend, take up, up, uplift, weigh), mãri (add, advance, amplify, augment, better, broach, broaden, carry, develop, dilate, enhance, enlarge, expand, extend, greaten, improve, increase, intensify, largen, lift, magnify, multiply, piece out, raise, reinforce, splay, step up, swell, widen), exagera (draw the long draw, enhance, exaggerate, exceed, lay it on, magnify, overdo, overdraw, overestimate, overrate, overshoot oneself, overstate, pile it on, put it on, salt, stick on, stretch, talk through one's hat, throw the hatchet). (various references)

Russian 

увеличивать (add to, amplify, amplifying, augment, augmenting, deepen, enhance, enlarge, increase, increment, magnify, multiply, pile up), возвеличивать (exalt, extol), повышать в ранге. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

uvećati (enlarge, increase), proširiti (amplify, broaden, dilate, expand, extend, let out, widen), preuveličavati (exaggerate). (various references)

Spanish

ampliar (amplify, blow up, broaden, develop, enlarge, extend), agrandar (accrete, enlarge, entlarge, heighten, magnify), acrecentar (accrue, add to, augment, increase, promote, to increase), exagerar (enlarge upon, exaggerate, inflate, jazz, make too much of, overdo, overdo it, overdo things, overpays, overplay, overstate, overwrite, pile it on, pitch it strong, play up, romance), engrandecer (enlarge, exalt, extol, extoll). (various references)

Swedish

förstora (augment, augmented, enlarge, exaggerate, foul up, increase, magnify, mangle). (various references)

Turkish

artırmak (add, amplify, augment, bid up, boom, boost, build up, bump up, compound, deepen, economize, eke out, enhance, escalate, exalt, fade up, gain, heighten, improve, increase, outbid, overbid, put on, put up, raise, run up, save, scale up, screw up, send up, step up, swell out, swell up, up, upgrade, whip up, work up), abartmak (balloon, carry things too far, carry to excess, color, colour, dramatize, draw the longbow, drow the long bow, embellish, embroider, enhance, exaggerate, fudge, glorify, heighten, lay it on, lay it on thickly, lay it on with a trowel, magnify, overcharge, overdo, overstate, pile it on, pile on the agony, put it on, put it on thick, put on, shoot off one's mouth, slobber over, stretch), yüceltmek (belaud, emblazon, ennoble, enrich, exalt, sublimate, sublime, transfigure, uplift), büyütmek (amplify, augment, blow up, bring up, dilate, dramatize, enhance, enlarge, exaggerate, expand, Foster, glorify, greaten, grow, magnify, make big, make the most of, nourish, nurture, overstate, raise, rear, rebore, soup up), çoğaltmak (augment, clone, copy, increase, manifold, multiply, propagate, reproduce, scale up). (various references)

Ukrainian

вихваляти (allow, belaud, bepraise, eulogize, glamorize, glamourize, incense, magnify, panegyrize, talk up, vaunt), звеличувати (apotheosize, celebrate, emblazon, eulogize, exalt, extol, extoll, glorify, glory), збільшуватися (accede, accrue, enlarge, expand, grow, increase, lengthen, multiply, run up, vegetate, wax), збільшувати (add to, amplify, augment, deepen, enhance, enlarge, exaggerate, increase, magnify, multiply, pile up), підвищуватися (heighten, upsurge), посилюватися (get up, heighten, intensify, sharpen, tone up), посилювати (aggravate, amplify, augment, exalt, fade up, heighten, reinforce, sharpen). (various references)

Welsh

mwyhau (enlarge, increase, magnify), mawr.hau (enlarge, magnify). (various references)

grandire. (various references)

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Derivations

Words beginning with "aggrandize": aggrandized, aggrandizement, aggrandizements, aggrandizer, aggrandizers, aggrandizes. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Aggrandize" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: aggrandise, aggrandiz, agrandize. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-2 letters: drainage, gardenia.

-3 letters: aggrade, agnized, anergia, araneid, deraign, garaged, gearing, gradine, grading, grained, grazing, naggier, reading, zenaida, zingara, zingare.

-4 letters: ageing, agenda, agnize, dagger, danger, daring, dazing, denari, digger, dinger, earing, edging, engird, gaeing, gained, gainer, gander, ganged, ganger, garage, garden, gazing, ginger, girned, gradin, grange, grazed, nagged, nagger, radian, ragged, raging, rained.

+1 letter: aggrandized, aggrandizer, aggrandizes.

+2 letters: aggrandizers.

+4 letters: aggrandizement.

+5 letters: aggrandizements.