exaggerate, overstate, puff up, build up, magnify
The corresponding noun is aggrandizement.
John D. Rockefeller worked to aggrandize his empire by purchasing oil wells, refineries, and pipelines.
All the synonyms: acclaim, advance, aggrandize, apotheosized,applaud, bless, boost, build up*, commend,dignify, distinguish, ennoble, erect, eulogize,extol, glorify, halo, honor, idolize, intensify, laud,magnify, pay homage to, pay tribute to, raise,revere, set on pedestal, sublime, transfigure,upgrade, uprear, worship
They are synonyms.
Synonyms
synonyms for prominence:importancefamestatureprestige
Dads aggrandize their money.
Dads aggrandize their money.
== == Aggrandize means to make great or greater in pwer, rank or honor, to exalt.
John D. Rockefeller worked to aggrandize his empire by purchasing oil wells, refineries, and pipelines.
Aggrandize's etymology includes the Latin base -grandis, meaning great.
After Black Death people got back to work. This Aggrandized many individuals.
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Aggrandize means to make larger, improve, promote, or boost. "The historian's job is to aggrandize, promoting accident to inevitability and innocuous circumstance to portent." "Republican Presidential candidate Mitt Romney uses his status as a successful business owner to aggrandize his image as a potential job-creator." "The haughty husband's self-aggrandizement was seen as fatuous by his no-nonsense wife."
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The word "Aggrandize" has two meanings. 1. to increase the power, status, or wealth of; 2. to enhance the reputation of (someone) beyond what is justified by the facts.