aggrandizeverb [ T ]
UK usually aggrandise /əˈɡræn.daɪz//əˈɡræn.daɪz/disapproving formal to make someone more powerful or important
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Controlling and being in charge
- assume
- assumption
- authoritative
- balance of power
- balls
- divide
- dominant
- have sb by the balls idiom
- have sb eating out of your hand idiom
- have sb in the palm of your hand idiom
- have sth in hand idiom
- heel
- high-handed
- hook
- pull
- pull rank idiom
- pull the strings idiom
- putty
- regimentation
- rein
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Becoming and making stronger
Examples from literature
- He aggrandized their sense of importance, and accomplished his object in securing their support in his controversies with his congregation.
- I know her avaricious and acrimonious disposition—her love of wealth, and her anxiety to aggrandize her family.
- In the mob, as a French psychologist has said, ideas neutralize each other, but emotions aggrandize each other.
- The people were virtually enslaved to aggrandize a single person.
- To say that the sun was a god was equivalent to saying that it was a man, a human consciousness, more or less, aggrandized and sublimated.