Aggrandize: alternatives and connections

To render larger, more extended, or more intense, and the like; -- used especially of telescopes, microscopes, etc.

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To heap up; to accumulate.

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To speak or write with exaggeration.

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To make great, or greater; to increase the dimensions of; to amplify; to enlarge, either in fact or in appearance; as, the microscope magnifies the o…

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To exaggerate; to overdo.

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To state in too strong terms; to exaggerate.

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To make glorious by bestowing glory upon; to confer honor and distinction upon; to elevate to power or happiness, or to celestial glory.

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A composition, in prose or poetry, accommodated to action, and intended to exhibit a picture of human life, or to depict a series of grave or humorou…

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A composition, in prose or poetry, accommodated to action, and intended to exhibit a picture of human life, or to depict a series of grave or humorou…

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To compose in the form of the drama; to represent in a drama; to adapt to dramatic representation; as, to dramatize a novel, or an historical episode.

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To make beautiful or elegant by ornaments; to decorate; to adorn; as, to embellish a book with pictures, a garden with shrubs and flowers, a narrativ…

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To ornament with needlework; as, to embroider a scarf.

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Bacon; the flesh of swine.

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A footpath; a road.

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