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What does aggrandize mean?

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Verb
  1. (transitive) To make great; to enlarge; to increase.
  2. (transitive) To make great or greater in power, rank, honor, or wealth; applied to persons, countries, etc.
  3. (transitive) To make appear great or greater; to exalt.
  4. (intransitive) To increase or become great.
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Another group put in place of owners would still wield virtually complete power, and aggrandize itself above workers.
The comparison with Seurat's Grande Jatte, intended to aggrandize Signac's work, has the opposite effect.
Rather, they propose to cross the frontier for no better reason than to aggrandize themselves and to prolong the subjection of their own population.
The party, on the other hand, needs the army to win the war and thus to stabilize and even aggrandize its own power.
For example, the community college baccalaureate is a result of practitioners' political agenda to aggrandize their institutions.
In their study of human society, the anthropologists aggrandize themselves to the observational perspective of gods even as they reduce humans to little more than animals.

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