aggrandized's Usage Examples:

The Serbian army was also allowed to occupy the Backa, Syrmia and Bosnia-Herzegovina, but no territory farther west: and for a moment it seemed as though an attempt was being made to leave the Croats and Slovenes to their fate and to form an aggrandized Serbia on the lines advocated by Pasic and Petrograd in the summer of 1915.

The privileged orders had aggrandized themselves at the expense of the community.

They aggrandized themselves at the expense of the Macleans, Macdonalds, Camerons and Clan Chattan, but their sway was far from being peaceful and orderly.

Between these two wars William aggrandized his power at the expense of Anjou by annexing Mayenne.

which Dutch and Belgian troops fought side by side under his command, the congress of Vienna further aggrandized him by making him sovereign of the territory of Luxemburg with the title of grand duke.

From very early days Christianity was hailed as the " new law "; and the suppression of the rigorist sects, by definitely giving law supremacy over enthusiasm, aggrandized it, but at the same time aggrandized the sacraments.

It was he who after Austerlitz aggrandized the margravate at the expense of Austria; transformed it into a sovereign principality and raised it to a grand-duchy.

Synonyms:

aggrandise, dramatise, embellish, dramatize, pad, overstate, glorify, hyperbolise, blow up, lard, amplify, magnify, exaggerate, embroider, hyperbolize, overdraw,

Antonyms:

understate, uglify, worsen, ride, empty,