overaggrandize

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verb

To make greater than is appropriate.

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Meanings

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

present singular third person overaggrandizes · participle present overaggrandizing · participle past overaggrandized · past overaggrandized

  1. To make greater than is appropriate.

    We far too often overaggrandize innovation.

    2011, Thomas M. Koulopoulos, The Innovation Zone: How Great Companies Re-Innovate for Amazing Success, →ISBN
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    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

    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.

    2017, Mae Chang Koh, The Magnificent Chinese Jade Pagoda, →ISBN

Origin

From over- + aggrandize.

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APA

overaggrandize. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/overaggrandize

MLA

“overaggrandize.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/overaggrandize. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “overaggrandize,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/overaggrandize.

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