aggrandize / əˈgræn daɪz, ˈæg rənˌdaɪz /

📖毕业后词汇夸大其词夸大夸耀夸大其辞

aggrandize 的定义

v. 有主动词 verb

ag·gran·dized, ag·gran·diz·ing.

  1. to widen in scope; increase in size or intensity; enlarge; extend.
  2. to make great or greater in power, wealth, rank, or honor.
  3. to make appear greater.

aggrandize 近义词

v. 动词 verb

cause something to seem or be greater, bigger

更多aggrandize例句

  1. The Global Times, too, was quick to criticize Tsai’s “self-aggrandizing attitude,” while highlighting that it was not her government that completed the vaccine deal.
  2. I spent much of the pandemic watching, in real time, the necessary dissolution of the nation’s self-aggrandizing and innocent sense of its history and purpose.
  3. Still, some emperors were particularly adept at crafting a narrative … that is, until Nero took the self-aggrandizing a tad too far.
  4. Proponents of peace must overcome the tendency to self-destructively aggrandize the settlements.
  5. They only cared to aggrandize themselves, without thought of national feeling or geographical conditions.
  6. His ambition was not to secure for himself ease or luxury, but to extend his imperial power, and to aggrandize his family.
  7. The Master proceeded to show that a man who speaks on his own authority alone seeks to aggrandize himself.
  8. It resisted, in the lower classes, the attempt of the church to suppress it in order to aggrandize the corporation.
  9. She did not try to aggrandize herself at their expense, nor did she take up weapons against them.