aggrandize

/ə'grændaiz/
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aggrandize

The manager tried to aggrandize his role in the project during the meeting.

Definition
  1. Verb:
    • To make something appear greater or more significant than it is, often by adding exaggerated details or false information: The core meaning involves enhancing the perception of something's size, importance, or power, typically through embellishment or inflation.
    • To increase the power, status, or wealth of a person or nation: This meaning focuses on actual expansion or elevation, though it can imply using questionable means.
Usage Examples
  • Verb:
    • The biography tended to aggrandize the leader's wartime role, ignoring the contributions of others.
    • He was accused of using public funds to aggrandize his personal estate.
    • Historians warn against aggrandizing the empire's cultural achievements while overlooking its oppressive policies.
Advanced Usage
  • "Self-aggrandizement" (noun): The act of increasing one's own power, status, or reputation, typically in a boastful or excessive manner.
    • The politician's speech was an exercise in pure self-aggrandizement.
  • Used often in formal, critical, or historical contexts to describe the inflation of facts, reputation, or territorial control.
Variants and Related Words
  • Aggrandizement (noun): The act or result of aggrandizing.
    • The pursuit of personal aggrandizement was his primary motivation.
  • Aggrandizer (noun): A person who aggrandizes.
Synonyms
  • Embellish: To make more attractive by adding decorative details, but often implies adding fictitious details.
  • Exaggerate: To represent something as being larger, better, or worse than it really is.
  • Magnify: To make something seem more important or serious than it is.
  • Glorify: To describe or represent as admirable, especially unjustifiably.
Antonyms
  • Belittle: To make someone or something seem less impressive or important.
  • Diminish: To make or become less.
  • Understate: To describe or represent something as being smaller or less important than it actually is.
Related Phrases and Idioms
  • Aggrandize oneself: To promote or increase one's own status or importance.
    • He constantly sought opportunities to aggrandize himself at meetings.
  • Aggrandize at the expense of: To enhance one's own position by diminishing another's.
    • The regime aggrandized itself at the expense of the neighboring states.
aggrandize

The manager tried to aggrandize his role in the project during the meeting.

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