overaggrandize
English edit
Etymology edit
over- + aggrandize
Verb edit
overaggrandize (third-person singular simple present overaggrandizes, present participle overaggrandizing, simple past and past participle overaggrandized)
- To make greater than is appropriate.
- 1985, David J. Juroe, Bonnie B. Juroe, Successful Stepparenting, →ISBN, page 128:
- Does my child have the tendency to overaggrandize my ex-spouse, without seeing his or her faults?
- 2011, Thomas M. Koulopoulos, The Innovation Zone: How Great Companies Re-Innovate for Amazing Success, →ISBN:
- We far too often overaggrandize innovation.
- 2017, Mae Chang Koh, The Magnificent Chinese Jade Pagoda, →ISBN:
- I don't want to overaggrandize him to make up for the past, but I want to be very respectful of how he really was.