overaggrandize

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

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verb

"Does my child have the tendency to overaggrandize my ex-spouse, without seeing his or her faults?"
"We far too often overaggrandize innovation."
"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."

From over- + aggrandize.

overaggrandizes (present, singular) overaggrandizing (participle, present) overaggrandized (participle, past) overaggrandized (past)

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