Aggrandize vs Augment - What's the difference?
aggrandize | augment |
To make great; to enlarge; to increase.
To make great or greater in power, rank, honor, or wealth; applied to persons, countries, etc.
* Prescott
To make appear great or greater; to exalt.
To increase or become great.
To increase; to make larger or supplement.
(reflexive) To grow; to increase; to become greater.
(music) To slow the tempo or meter, e.g. for a dramatic or stately passage.
(music) To increase an interval, especially the largest interval in a triad, by a half step (chromatic semitone).
(grammar) To add an augment to.
(grammar) In some Indo-European languages, a prefix e-'' (''a- in Sanskrit) indicating a past tense of a verb.
In transitive terms the difference between aggrandize and augment
is that aggrandize is to make appear great or greater; to exalt while augment is to increase; to make larger or supplement.As a noun augment is
in some Indo-European languages, a prefix e- (a- in Sanskrit) indicating a past tense of a verb.aggrandize
English
Alternative forms
* aggrandise (mainly British)Verb
(aggrandiz)- to aggrandize our conceptions, authority, distress
- his scheme for aggrandizing his son
- (Charles Lamb)
augment
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Verb
(en verb)- The money from renting out a spare room can augment a salary.
