Aggrandize vs Ameliorate - What's the difference?
aggrandize | ameliorate |
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 better, to improve.
* Macaulay
In lang=en terms the difference between aggrandize and ameliorate
is that aggrandize is to increase or become great while ameliorate is to make better, to improve.As verbs the difference between aggrandize and ameliorate
is that aggrandize is to make great; to enlarge; to increase while ameliorate is to make better, to improve.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)
ameliorate
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Verb
(ameliorat)- They offered some compromises in an effort to ameliorate the situation.
- In every human being there is a wish to ameliorate his own condition.