aggrandize

1

To make great; to enlarge; to increase.

to aggrandize one's authority, distress

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embiggen greaten grow

2

To make great or greater in power, rank, honor, or wealth (applied to persons, countries, etc.).

[…] the aggrandizing of your estate by well managed fortune […] may well set out your praises to the world […]

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elevate empower ennoble

3

To make appear great or greater; to exalt.

[…] they contrive to make all approaches to them difficult and vexatious, and imagine that they aggrandize themſelves by waſting the time of others in uſeleſs attendance, and by mortifying them with ſlights, and teazing them with affronts.

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extol laud praise

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Aggrandize

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