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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.

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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.

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  • 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.

 

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