vi to increase or become great.
2. aggrandize ·vt to make appear great or greater; to exalt.
3. aggrandize ·vt to make great or greater in power, rank, honor, or wealth;
applied to persons, countries, ·etc.
4. aggrandize ·vt to make great; to enlarge; to increase; as, to aggrandize our conceptions, authority, distress.