OXFORD 9000
📚 verb • entry_id 11036

aggrandize

/əˈɡɹændaɪ̯z/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
enaltecer • encumbrar • engrandecer • ennoblecer • ensalzar
To make great or greater in power, rank, honor, or wealth (applied to persons, countries, etc.).
He only wanted to aggrandize and enrich himself; and if Miss Woodhouse of Hartfield, the heiress of thirty thousand pounds, were not quite so easily obtained as he had fancied, he…
[…] the aggrandizing of your estate by well managed fortune […] may well set out your praises to the world […]