(v. t.) To make great; to enlarge; to increase; as, to aggrandize our conceptions, authority, distress.
(v. t.) To make great or greater in power, rank, honor, or wealth; -- applied to persons, countries, etc.
(v. t.) To make appear great or greater; to exalt.
(v. i.) To increase or become great.
Example Sentences:
(1) As she prepares to launch her final bid to become America’s first female president, the question posed by her best friend booms out loud: why funny and wacky to those who love her, yet to others a self-aggrandizing shrew?
(2) While James took a huge hit in popularity for both leaving Cleveland and the somewhat self-aggrandizing way in which he went about it, the move ended up being the right one.
(3) The patient tended to aggrandize men from which it followed that the distance between herself and those men grew to such an extent that they could not perceive her any more.
(4) Diane Blair herself pondered deeply that question, asking herself in one of her private notes why her great friend was so polarizing, why to her Hillary Clinton was “funny, wicked and wacky” yet to others she came across as “a malevolent, power-mad, self-aggrandizing shrew”.
(5) A common trait of scientists is to aggrandize the merits of their own field and minimize the importance of their competitors.
(6) He discusses five major concerns: the patient's privacy; the effects of the media on the treatment of the patient; the integrity of the experiment; hospital disruptions; and the negative reactions of peers who perceive physician-researchers as self-aggrandizing.
(7) Pseudologia fantastica is typified by these characteristics: (1) the stories are not entirely improbable and are often built upon a matrix of truth; (2) the stories are enduring; (3) the stories are not told for personal profit per se and have a self-aggrandizing quality; and (4) they are distinct from delusions in that the person when confronted with facts can acknowledge these falsehoods.
(8) One is exploitative, grandiose, and dominant, forever seeking admiration and exhibiting an aggrandized self; the other experiences humiliation, neediness, helplessness, and terror of aloneness.
(9) It was never meant to be a stagnant badge of personal identity, another self-aggrandizing brownie point in service to a narcissitic culture of individualised 'empowerment'.
(10) But their public relations strategy has repeatedly suffered from bizarre self-aggrandizing videos that rogue militiamen continue to post to their followers.
(11) As early as age 7, boys who subsequently acknowledged dysthymia were aggressive, self-aggrandizing, and undercontrolled whereas girls with later depressive tendencies were intropunitive, oversocialized, and overcontrolling.
Depreciate
Definition:
(v. t.) To lessen in price or estimated value; to lower the worth of; to represent as of little value or claim to esteem; to undervalue.
(v. i.) To fall in value; to become of less worth; to sink in estimation; as, a paper currency will depreciate, unless it is convertible into specie.
Example Sentences:
(1) The researcher is completing a PhD on the superyacht scene and says the vessels are unique among prestige assets: unlike private jets they are not a useful mode of transport; unlike art and property, they always depreciate in value.
(2) If the notes aren't spent, they can be renewed by buying a stamp that costs 2% of the note's face value – so over a year, the currency depreciates 8%.
(3) Olivier Blanchard, IMF director of research, said: “New factors supporting growth – lower oil prices, but also depreciation of euro and yen – are more than offset by persistent negative forces, including the lingering legacies of the crisis and lower potential growth in many countries”.
(4) Depreciation and salaries represented the major components of cost.
(5) "The ISM noted that some of the recent strength is due to the effects of the accelerated investment depreciation tax allowance, which expired at the end of last year.
(6) However, much of the gains followed a depreciation of the currency, which is not something Cyprus can follow while it remains inside the euro.
(7) The depreciation in the Australian dollar is also helping.
(8) The credit rating agency said that according to its estimate of ITV's adjusted debt to Ebitda – earnings before interest, tax, depreciation and amortisation – it believes the ratio will "exceed" four times for 2008 "with a possible increase to about five times in 2009".
(9) No one buys homes there, because your money will probably depreciate.
(10) Weaker growth in China weighs on demand, while the depreciation of the yen is making supply more competitive."
(11) The Black Lives Matter movement is about more than just justice for our deaths – it’s about a depreciation of black life The War Machine has always had an insatiable need for bodies of color from before the birth of this nation.
(12) Britain and the United States have at least been able to relieve some of the pressure on their economies through a depreciating currency.
(13) We expect the composition of growth to rebalance towards net trade, as the headwinds facing households from the erosion of their real incomes weigh on consumer spending while the depreciation of sterling supports net trade,” said Simon Kirby, NIESR’s head of macroeconomic forecasting.
(14) It is now profitable before interest, tax and depreciation charges, and looking to expand again.
(15) "If it persisted, the recent further depreciation of sterling was likely to put additional upwards pressure on inflation over the next few quarters," the minutes said.
(16) Currently there is no basis for the renminbi exchange rate to continue to depreciate,” PBoC assistant governor Zhang Xiaohui said on Thursday .
(17) For example, Kate and Matt Maloney , a young couple from Moranbah in Queensland who were honoured as investors of the year in 2012 by Your Investment Property Magazine, owe lenders $5.8m in mortgage debt on a depreciated property portfolio currently worth $2.3m.
(18) Across the world, protectionist trade measures have been on the rise.” Apart from the sharp depreciation of the pound, the IMF said financial markets’ reaction to Brexit vote had “generally been contained”, with shares up and the appetite for taking risk recovering after an initial plunge.
(19) But even though its share price has fallen since the depreciation of the Chinese currency began on Tuesday, the Swiss company said the move will prove positive in the end.
(20) The slim document predicts that underlying earnings before interest, tax, depreciation and amortisation will leap by more than 80% from £31.7m in 2010 to almost £60m in 2012.