What is another word for Aggrandized?

Pronunciation: [ɐɡɹˈanda͡ɪzd] (IPA)

Aggrandized is a word that means to be made bigger or more important. It can also mean to be overblown or exaggerated. If you are looking for synonyms for this word, you might consider using elevated, magnified, enhanced, boosted, or amplified. Other options might include enlarged, elevated, increased, or expanded. These words all share in common the idea of making something bigger or more important than it was before. Whether you are talking about something tangible, like a building or a business, or something more abstract, like a person's reputation or social status, the concept of aggrandizement is a powerful one that can be expressed in many ways.

What are the hypernyms for Aggrandized?

A hypernym is a word with a broad meaning that encompasses more specific words called hyponyms.

Usage examples for Aggrandized

In all Philip's visions of future prosperity, it was Sylvia who was to be Aggrandized by them; his own life was to be spent as it was now, pretty much between the four shop walls.
"Sylvia's Lovers -- Complete"
Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell
How one "Power" may be Aggrandized and another curtailed, how the spoils may be divided among the victors, how the "balance" may be arranged-these kinds of considerations and these alone have influenced their minds.
"The Healing of Nations and the Hidden Sources of Their Strife"
Edward Carpenter
The Prussian monarchy was suddenly bereft of half its population, and now figured on the map as a disjointed land, scarcely larger than the possessions of the King of Saxony, and less defensible than Jerome Bonaparte's Kingdom of Westphalia; while the Confederation of the Rhine, soon to be Aggrandized by the accession of Mecklenburg and Oldenburg, seemed to doom the House of Hohenzollern to lasting insignificance.
"The Life of Napoleon I (Volumes, 1 and 2)"
John Holland Rose

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