Word Meanings - AGGRANDIZE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. To make great; to enlarge; to increase; as, to aggrandize our conceptions, authority, distress. 2. To make great or greater in power, rank, honor, or wealth; -- applied to persons, countries, etc. His scheme for aggrandizing his son. Prescott.

Additional info about word: AGGRANDIZE

1. To make great; to enlarge; to increase; as, to aggrandize our conceptions, authority, distress. 2. To make great or greater in power, rank, honor, or wealth; -- applied to persons, countries, etc. His scheme for aggrandizing his son. Prescott. 3. To make appear great or greater; to exalt. Lamb. Syn. -- To augment; exalt; promote; advance.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of AGGRANDIZE)

• Dignify
• Aggrandize
• elevate
• invest
• adorn
• exalt
• advance
• promote
• honor
• Ennoble
• Exalt
• dignify
• ameliorate
• aggrandize
• Enrich
• endow
• store
• augment
• fertilize
• decorate
• enhance
• Glorify
• laud
• praise
• signalize
• magnify
• adore
• panegyrize
• extol

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of AGGRANDIZE)

• Retard
• hinder
• withhold
• withdraw
• recall
• depress
• degrade
• suppress
• oppose
• retreat
• decrease
• Blame
• censure
• discommend
• reprove

Related words: (words related to AGGRANDIZE)

• STORER
  One who lays up or forms a store.
• INVESTIGATION
  The act of investigating; the process of inquiring into or following up; research; study; inquiry, esp. patient or thorough inquiry or examination; as, the investigations of the philosopher and the mathematician; the investigations of the judge,
• DECORATE
  To deck with that which is becoming, ornamental, or honorary; to adorn; to beautify; to embellish; as, to decorate the person; to decorate an edifice; to decorate a lawn with flowers; to decorate the mind with moral beauties; to decorate a hero
• HONORABLE
  1. Worthy of honor; fit to be esteemed or regarded; estimable; illustrious. Thy name and honorable family. Shak. 2. High-minded; actuated by principles of honor, or a scrupulous regard to probity, rectitude, or reputation. 3. Proceeding from an
• PRAISEWORTHINESS
  The quality or state of being praiseworthy.
• SIGNALIZE
  1. To make signal or eminent; to render distinguished from what is common; to distinguish. It is this passion which drives men to all the ways we see in use of signalizing themselves. Burke. 2. To communicate with by means of a signal; as, a ship
• ADORE
  adorare; ad + orare to speak, pray, os, oris, mouth. In OE. confused with honor, the French prefix a- being confused with OE. a, an, on. 1. To worship with profound reverence; to pay divine honors to; to honor as deity or as divine. Smollett. 2.
• ADORNINGLY
  By adorning; decoratively.
• EXTOLMENT
  Praise. Shak.
• ADORNATION
  Adornment.
• SUPPRESSOR
  One who suppresses.
• CENSURER
  One who censures. Sha.
• INVESTIGATIVE
  Given to investigation; inquisitive; curious; searching.
• RETREATFUL
  Furnishing or serving as a retreat. "Our retreatful flood." Chapman.
• HONORABLENESS
  1. The state of being honorable; eminence; distinction. 2. Conformity to the principles of honor, probity, or moral rectitude; fairness; uprightness; reputableness.
• EXALTMENT
  Exaltation. Barrow.
• RETREATMENT
  The act of retreating; specifically, the Hegira. D'Urfey.
• ENHANCEMENT
  The act of increasing, or state of being increased; augmentation; aggravation; as, the enhancement of value, price, enjoyments, crime.
• INVESTIENT
  Covering; clothing. Woodward.
• PRAISER
  1. One who praises. "Praisers of men." Sir P. Sidney. 2. An appraiser; a valuator. Sir T. North.
• APPRAISER
  One who appraises; esp., a person appointed and sworn to estimate and fix the value of goods or estates.
• REENDOW
  To endow again.
• SEXTOLET
  A double triplet; a group of six equal notes played in the time of four.
• INSUPPRESSIBLE
  That can not be suppressed or concealed; irrepressible. Young. -- In`sup*press"i*bly, adv.
• DISGLORIFY
  To deprive of glory; to treat with indignity. Disglorified, blasphemed, and had in scorn. Milton.
• SELF-FERTILIZED
  Fertilized by pollen from the same flower.