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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. v. To increase the scope of; extend.
  2. v. To make greater in power, influence, stature, or reputation.
  3. v. To make appear greater; exaggerate: aggrandize one argument while belittling another.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. To make great or greater in power, wealth, rank, or honor; exalt: as, to aggrandize a family.
  2. To magnify or exaggerate.
  3. To widen in scope; increase in size or intensity; enlarge; extend; elevate.
  4. Synonyms To honor, dignify, advance, elevate, give luster to.
  5. To grow or become greater.
  6. Also spelled aggrandise.

Wiktionary

  1. v. transitive To make great; to enlarge; to increase; as.
  2. v. transitive To make great or greater in power, rank, honor, or wealth; applied to persons, countries, etc.
  3. v. transitive To make appear great or greater; to exalt.
  4. v. intransitive To increase or become great.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. v. To make great; to enlarge; to increase.
  2. v. To make great or greater in power, rank, honor, or wealth; -- applied to persons, countries, etc.
  3. v. To make appear great or greater; to exalt.
  4. v. obsolete To increase or become great.

WordNet 3.0

  1. v. add details to

Etymologies

  1. French agrandir, agrandiss-, from Old French : a-, to (from Latin ad-; see ad-) + grandir, to grow larger (from Latin grandīre, from grandis, large). (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

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  • qroqqa Etymologically or morphologically unusual: it contains an '-ize' suffix (and is usually so spelt), but not the '-ize' suffix. It is in fact the French suffix found in 'advertise' and possibly 'chastise'. Nov 26, 2008

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  • alisonrobin I first heard this word in what has become my favorite song. It's the only time I've had to turn to a dictionary to look up something from song lyrics! Nov 26, 2008

  • oroboros aggRAndiZE. Build up vs. tear down. Aug 22, 2008

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