Aggrandize vs Heighten - What's the difference?
aggrandize | heighten | Related terms |
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 make high; to raise higher; to elevate.
To advance, increase, augment, make larger, more intense, stronger etc.
:to heighten beauty
:to heighten a flavor or a tint.
* 2006 , Ashley Seager,
*:If Mr Brown chooses, he could raise his estimate of the economy's "trend" rate of growth in the coming years and so heighten his hopes of tax revenues.
Aggrandize is a related term of heighten.
As verbs the difference between aggrandize and heighten
is that aggrandize is to make great; to enlarge; to increase while heighten is to make high; to raise higher; to elevate.aggrandize
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Alternative forms
* aggrandise (mainly British)Verb
(aggrandiz)- to aggrandize our conceptions, authority, distress
- his scheme for aggrandizing his son
- (Charles Lamb)
heighten
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Employment rise gives chancellor a boost'', published in ''The Guardian Online , 6 December 2006
