(~s, aggrandizing, ~d)
Note: in BRIT, also use 'aggrandise'
To ~ someone means to make them seem richer, more powerful, and more important than they really are. To ~ a building means to make it more impressive.
At the dinner table, my father would go on and on, showing off, aggrandising himself...
...plans to aggrandise the building.
VERB: V pron-refl, V n disapproval