| 词汇 | aggrandize |
| 释义 | aggrandize verb[ T ] (UK usuallyaggrandise)uk /əˈɡræn.daɪz/ us /əˈɡræn.daɪz/ disapproving formal to make someone more powerful or important扩大…的权势；提高…的地位 Controlling and being in charge assert your authority assume assumption authoritative authoritatively cynical get the better of someoneidiom get your hooks into someone/somethingidiom govern guiding principle harness peremptorily peremptory play Godidiom plenipotentiary police slow tame wrangle wrangler You can also find related words, phrases, and synonyms in the topics: Becoming and making stronger He aggrandized their sense of importance, and accomplished his object in securing their support in his controversies with his congregation. I know her avaricious and acrimonious disposition—her love of wealth, and her anxiety to aggrandize her family. In the mob, as a French psychologist has said, ideas neutralize each other, but emotions aggrandize each other. The people were virtually enslaved to aggrandize a single person. To say that the sun was a god was equivalent to saying that it was a man, a human consciousness, more or less, aggrandized and sublimated. Examples of aggrandizeaggrandize On the other hand, the predominantly suburban setting for humanity's first contact with another world necessarily aggrandizes suburbia. Could waning delta power in fact aggrandize the refractory period? The aggrandizing state has run amok and collectivism has triumphed across the globe. He carved out an international repertoire to dignify himself and aggrandize his ancestors whenever it was possible. Divisional chiefs, anxious to secure and aggrandize their powers, created new hierarchies, reinvented rituals of union and jockeyed for representation on councils and tribunals. Thomasius presented his work on church law as a defence of the rights of territorial rulers against the attempts of ' papistical clerics ' to aggrandize to themselves aspects of civil authority. They were only out to aggrandize the sphere of their own oppressive acts. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 However, in my respectful submission, there is one overriding and all-pervading question; namely, the balance of the constitution and whether our executive is increasingly aggrandizing. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 He urged women to be the sole participants in these acts, in order to aggrandize the emotional force of the movement. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. Illumination of manuscripts, as a way of aggrandizing ancient documents, aided their preservation and informative value in an era when new ruling classes were no longer literate. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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