aggrandize

aggrandize[ə'ɡrændaiz]

• vt.
  • 扩大(范围)；扩大…的权势(或权力)；提高…的地位(或荣誉等)；增加…的财富，使更富有；增大，增强[常与反身代词连用]：

    to aggrandize oneself at the expense of others

    损人利己

  • 夸大，夸张；吹捧：

    She often aggrandizes herself and disparages her colleagues.

    她经常吹嘘自己而贬低同事。

• 变形:

  vt.aggrandized.aggrandizing

• subtilized
• the weather
• midrashes
• write for
• comparison-shops
• sparseness
• illusionists
• examinate
• advancements
• aloof from
• la meter
• expound
• stage name
• have a good thing going
• roundstone
• the bartered bride
• rascally
• Bombyx mori
• effluent cave
• phraseologies
• dermatoautoplasty
• planet gear
• safety glass
• opine
• peak pressure
• tectonic rotation
• haet
• seser
• school miss
• Tyler, Royall
• escapologists
• sector search
• eyewatering
• modernist
• yikker
• mortal mind
• Ryle, Sir Martin
• water-laid
• bathythermograph
• spectral yellow
• agencies
• tripoli
• run before you can walk
• squeeze out a tear
• trinitroglycerin
• not be averse to sth
• temperate westerly
• pinakiolite
• miscodings
• on-the-run
• Kinetoplastida
• didicoi
• pass someone over
• county council
• fleeces
• luxations
• dovetailed
• spread
• inexpansible
• cunt
• cell radio
• talk to
• hypoalimentations
• Chapman-Enskog solution
• pentamer
• autographed
• sightlessness
• abdominocentesis
• signees
• attach weight to
• butylated hydroxyanisole
• Monoceros
• secessionism
• fused silica
• burst out
• Asiatically
• deflexions
• discovert
• pastorage
• waste unite
• gondwanalands
• envelope table
• kiwifruit
• microbial insecticide
• spherocytic anemia
• nevus
• far/farther/further afield
• electionary
• get someone where one wants him
• overwhelming majority
• civil-laws
• estrade
• confiture
• aglu
• nuncio
• have all one's work cut out for one
• be waiting (for sb)
• pride comes/goes before a fall
• llaneros
• epiphysis cerebris