aggrandize AmE
aggrandise BrE

There is some worry, though, about the series aggrandizing the war experience.

Therefore the ego has to figure out how to aggrandize "me" while at the same time being good.

Other generals might live in splendor, but a people's general could never aggrandize himself.

Why put down high culture to aggrandize nature when beauty might be a sublime combination of both?

"It sought to aggrandize itself at the expense of others.

To further aggrandize himself, he tried to supplant the captain as our host.

In December 1822 he was sued for aggrandizing his by now 620 acre farm.

We need not necessarily aggrandize ourselves with these stories, although sometimes we do.

Beyond that, greatness is no issue here, unless you count some of the settings used to aggrandize the story.

Another part of the family curse has been an urge to aggrandize all things Sedgwick.

"85 Was Ignatius merely attempting to aggrandize his own position?

The first of these moves was to aggrandize the "Association" to a "Church."

Very soon, you grow impatient with his efforts to aggrandize his all too human material.

It did not sufficiently aggrandize him or the Patriarchy.

So far, he added, "I think he has claimed powers, and tried to aggrandize the office."

Do famous people tend to try to whitewash or aggrandize their pasts?

They continue to be bombarded with proposals, each aggrandizing the powers of the proposer.

The Reventlows took advantage of their kinship to the king to aggrandize.

They aggrandize themselves by claiming they are with bin Laden."

"But if he's trying to aggrandize himself this way, whatever the logic, why hasn't he publicized it yet?

"We have to have a political and diplomatic strategy to attack him without aggrandizing him."

"They were using it to aggrandize themselves, to benefit themselves, to make themselves more attractive," he said.

It is sickening to see tax dollars being spent to aggrandize egos - even when they know they are wrong.

He urged women to be the sole participants in these acts, in order to aggrandize the emotional force of the movement.

Puritans argued that the bishops were attempting to aggrandize themselves at the Parliament's expense.