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overaggrandize

overaggrandize verb: to make greater than is appropriate.

Verb

overaggrandize (third-person singular simple present overaggrandizes, present participle overaggrandizing, simple past and past participle overaggrandized)

  1. To make greater than is appropriate.
    • Does my child have the tendency to overaggrandize my ex-spouse, without seeing his or her faults?1985, David J. Juroe, Bonnie B. Juroe, Successful Stepparenting, →ISBN, page 128
    • We far too often overaggrandize innovation.2011, Thomas M. Koulopoulos, The Innovation Zone: How Great Companies Re-Innovate for Amazing Success, →ISBN

Forms of overaggrandize

third-person singular presentoveraggrandizes
present participleoveraggrandizing
past participleoveraggrandized
pastoveraggrandized

Origin of overaggrandize

From over- + aggrandize.

Questions about overaggrandize

What does overaggrandize mean?
Overaggrandize means to make greater than is appropriate.
What part of speech is overaggrandize?
Overaggrandize is a verb.
What is the past tense of overaggrandize?
The past tense of overaggrandize is overaggrandized.

Words near overaggrandize in the dictionary

  1. overages
  2. overaggrandise
  3. overaggrandised
  4. overaggrandises
  5. overaggrandising
  6. overaggrandize
  7. overaggrandized
  8. overaggrandizes
  9. overaggrandizing
  10. overaggravate
  11. overaggravated

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