Synonyms of the word

aggrandise

• v. Non-Oxford British English standard spelling of aggrandize.

aggrandize

• v. (transitive) To make great; to enlarge; to increase.
• v. (transitive) To make great or greater in power, rank, honor, or wealth; applied to persons, countries,…
• v. (transitive) To make appear great or greater; to exalt.
• v. (intransitive) To increase or become great.

amplify

• v. (transitive) To render larger, more extended, or more intense, and the like;—used especially of loudspeakers,…
• v. (transitive, rhetorical) To enlarge by addition or discussion; to treat copiously by adding particulars,…
• v. (transitive) To increase the amplitude of something, especially of an electric current.

dramatise

• v. (British spelling) Alternative spelling of dramatize.

dramatize

• v. To adapt a literary work so that it can be performed in the theatre, or on radio or television.
• v. To present something in a dramatic or melodramatic manner.

embellish

• v. To make more beautiful and attractive; to decorate.
• v. To make something sound or look better or more acceptable than it is in reality; to distort, to embroider.

embroider

• v. To stitch a decorative design on fabric with needle and thread of various colours.
• v. (figuratively) To add imaginary detail to a narrative to make it more interesting or acceptable.

exaggerate

• v. To overstate, to describe more than is fact.

hyperbolize

• v. (intransitive, now rare) To exaggerate, use hyperbole.
• v. (transitive, now rare) To represent or talk about with hyperbole.

lard

• n. Fat from the abdomen of a pig, especially as prepared for use in cooking or pharmacy.
• n. (obsolete) Fatty meat from a pig; bacon, pork.
• v. (cooking) to stuff (meat) with bacon or pork before cooking.
• v. to smear with fat or lard.
• v. to garnish or strew, especially with reference to words or phrases in speech and writing.
• v. To fatten; to enrich.
• v. (obsolete, intransitive) To grow fat.
• v. To mix or garnish with something, as by way of improvement; to interlard.

magnify

• v. (transitive) To praise, glorify (someone or something, especially God).
• v. (transitive) To make (something) larger or more important.
• v. (transitive) To make (someone or something) appear greater or more important than it is; to intensify,…
• v. (transitive) To make (something) appear larger by means of a lens, magnifying glass, telescope etc.
• v. (intransitive, slang, obsolete) To have effect; to be of importance or significance.

overdraw

• v. To withdraw more money from an account than there is credit; to make an overdraft.
• v. (archery) To use a device for shooting arrows shorter than the draw of the bow.
• n. Commonly described in graphics technical terms as the process by which during the rendering of a scene,…
• n. A value determining/describing “Overdraw” or “Overdraw factor” is commonly the number of times each pixel…

overstate

• v. To exaggerate; to state or claim too much.

pad

• n. A flattened mass of anything soft, to sit or lie on.
• n. A cushion used as a saddle without a tree or frame.
• n. A soft, or small, cushion.
• n. A cushion-like thickening of the skin on the under side of the toes of animals.
• n. The mostly hairless flesh located on the bottom of an animal's foot or paw.
• n. Any cushion-like part of the human body, especially the ends of the fingers.
• n. A stuffed guard or protection, especially one worn on the legs of horses to prevent bruising.
• n. A soft bag or cushion to relieve pressure, support a part, etc.
• n. A sanitary napkin.
• n. (US) A floating leaf of a water lily or similar plant.
• n. (cricket) A soft cover for a batsman's leg that protects it from damage when hit by the ball.
• n. A kind of cushion for writing upon, or for blotting, especially one formed of many flat sheets of writing…
• n. A panel or strip of material designed to be sensitive to pressure or touch.
• n. A keypad.
• n. A flat surface or area from which a helicopter or other aircraft may land or be launched.
• n. An electrical extension cord with a multi-port socket one end: "trip cord".
• n. The effect produced by sustained lower reed notes in a musical piece, most common in blues music.
• n. A synthesizer instrument sound used for sustained background sounds.
• n. (US, slang) A bed.
• n. (colloquial) A place of residence.
• n. (Britain, slang) A prison cell.
• n. (cryptography) A random key (originally written on a disposable pad) of the same length as the plaintext.
• n. A mousepad.
• n. (electronics) The amount by which a signal has been reduced.
• n. (nautical) A piece of timber fixed on a beam to fit the curve of the deck.
• v. (transitive) To stuff.
• v. (transitive) To furnish with a pad or padding.
• v. (transitive) To fill or lengthen (a story, one's importance, etc.).
• v. (transitive) To imbue uniformly with a mordant.
• v. (transitive, cricket) To deliberately play the ball with the leg pad instead of the bat.
• n. (Britain, dialectal) A toad.
• n. (Britain, dialectal, Australia, Ireland) A footpath, particularly one unformed or unmaintained; a road…
• n. An easy-paced horse; a padnag.
• n. (Britain, obsolete) A robber that infests the road on foot; a highwayman or footpad.
• n. The act of highway robbery.
• n. (Britain, dialectal) A type of wickerwork basket, especially as used as a measure of fish or other goods.
• v. (transitive) To travel along (a road, path etc.).
• v. (intransitive) To travel on foot.
• v. (intransitive) To wear a path by walking.
• v. (intransitive) To walk softly, quietly or steadily, especially without shoes.
• v. (intransitive, obsolete) To practise highway robbery.
• interj. Indicating a soft flat sound, as of bare footsteps.
• n. The sound of soft footsteps, or a similar noise made by an animal etc.