Antonyms for aggrandize
əˈgræn daɪz, ˈæg rənˌdaɪzag·gran·dize

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1. aggrandize

   Antonyms:
   abase, bring low, cast down, debase, degrade, depress, discredit, disgrace, dishonor, humble, humiliate, lower, reduce, sink

   Synonyms:
   advance, dignify, elevate, exalt, honor, promote, raise, uplift

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1. aggrandize

   Antonyms:
   depress, degrade, enfeeble, impoverish, debase, humiliate, lower, abase, disgrace, dishonor

   Synonyms:
   promote, dignify, exalt, ennoble, enrich, advance, augment, make great, magnify, elevate, signalize

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1. embroider, pad, lard, embellish, aggrandize, aggrandise, blow up, dramatize, dramatiseverb

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   Synonyms:
   broider, go ballistic, decorate, puff out, detonate, adopt, trudge, have kittens, ornament, slog, embroider, deck, fill out, inflate, puff, lose one's temper, beautify, hit the roof, explode, plod, combust, flip one's lid, flip one's wig, magnify, expand, prettify, amplify, adorn, pad, embellish, lard, fly off the handle, set off, footslog, blow a fuse, enlarge, hit the ceiling, blow up, aggrandise, have a fit, dramatise, tramp, grace, throw a fit, bolster, dramatize, blow one's stack, fancify, puff up

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1. aggrandizeverb

   Synonyms:
   exalt

How to use aggrandize in a sentence?

1. District Attorney Janet DiFiore:

   Using the child’s 'illnesses' to self aggrandize herself, her actions directly lead to her son’s tortured death.

2. Robert Stephens:

   People are being seduced into thinking oh wonderful 25 years in the City. She got to the top of the City, it assigns to her understanding of the way the financial world works which simply aren't so. The question is why she feels it necessary to self aggrandize herself in that way.

3. Barbara Bloom:

   When the Japanese mend broken objects they aggrandize the damage by filling the cracks with gold, because they believe that when something's suffered damage and has a history it becomes more beautiful.

4. District Attorney Janet DiFiore:

   Throughout his five years, Garnett Spears was forced to suffer through repeated hospitalizations, unneeded surgical procedures and ultimately poisoning with salt, all at the hands of the one person who should have been his ultimate protector: his mother, using the child’s 'illnesses' to self aggrandize herself, her actions directly lead to her son’s tortured death.

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