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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | cause something to seem or be greater, bigger |
| Synonyms: | acclaim, applaud, augment, beef up, boost, commend, dignify, distinguish, enlarge, ennoble, expand, extend, glorify, heighten, hike, hike up, honor, hype, increase, intensify, jack up, jump, magnify, multiply, parlay, praise |
| Antonyms: | belittle, debase, degrade, depress, disgrace, humble, lower |
| Main Entry: | boast |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | brag |
| Synonyms: | advertise, aggrandize, attract attention, blow, blow one's own horn, blow smoke, bluster, bully, cock-a-doodle-doo, con, congratulate oneself, crow, exaggerate, exult, fake, flatter oneself, flaunt, flourish, gasconade, give a good account of oneself, gloat, glory, grandstand, hug oneself, jive, lay on thick, prate, preen, psych, puff, shoot*, shovel, show off, showboat, shuck, sling, sound off, strut, swagger, talk big, triumph, vapor |
| Antonyms: | be modest, deprecate |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | boost |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | increase |
| Synonyms: | add to, aggrandize, amplify, augment, beef up, develop, enlarge, expand, extend, heighten, hike, jack up, jump, magnify, multiply, put up, raise, up |
| Antonyms: | blow, decrease, hinder, set back |
| Main Entry: | build |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | increase, accelerate |
| Synonyms: | aggrandize, amplify, augment, boost, compound, develop, enlarge, escalate, expand, extend, heighten, improve, intensify, magnify, mount, multiply, strengthen, swell, wax |
| Notes: | billed is having a beak or having been presented a statement of costs or charges, while build is to construct |
| Antonyms: | decelerate, decrease, destroy, ruin |
| Main Entry: | dignify |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | make honorable; glorify |
| Synonyms: | adorn, advance, aggrandize, distinguish, elevate, ennoble, erect, exalt, grace, honor, magnify, prefer, promote, raise, sublime, uprear |
| Antonyms: | belittle, condemn, degrade, demote, detract, disgrace, humiliate, insult, shame |
| Main Entry: | elevate |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | promote; augment |
| Synonyms: | advance, aggrandize, appoint, boost, build up, dignify, enhance, ennoble, exalt, further, glorify, heighten, honor, increase, intensify, magnify, prefer, put up, skip, swell, upgrade |
| Antonyms: | condemn, demote, denounce, deprecate, disdain, lessen, lower, spurn |
| Main Entry: | embroider |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | exaggerate information |
| Synonyms: | aggrandize, amplify, blow-up, build up, color, distend, dramatize, elaborate, embellish, enhance, enlarge, expand, falsify, fudge, heighten, hyperbolize, lie, magnify, make federal case, make mountain out of molehill, overdo, overelaborate, overembellish, overemphasize, overestimate, overstate, pad, play up, puff, romanticize, spread on thick, stretch, stretch the truth, yeast |
| Main Entry: | enhance |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | improve, embellish |
| Synonyms: | add to, adorn, aggrandize, amplify, appreciate, augment, beautify, boom, boost, build up, complement, elevate, embroider, enlarge, exaggerate, exalt, flesh out, heighten, increase, intensify, lift, magnify, pad, pyramid, raise, reinforce, strengthen, swell, upgrade |
| Antonyms: | decrease, fix, lower, minimize, reduce, worsen |
| Main Entry: | enlarge |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | make or grow bigger; increase |
| Synonyms: | add to, aggrandize, amplify, augment, beef up, blow up, boost, broaden, build, bulk, develop, diffuse, dilate, distend, elaborate, elongate, embroider, exaggerate, expand, expatiate, extend, give details, grow, grow larger, heighten, inflate, jack up, jazz up, lengthen, magnify, make larger, mount, multiply, pad, pyramid, rise, slap on, snowball, spread, stretch, swell, upsurge, wax, widen |
| Antonyms: | abridge, compress, condense, curtail, decrease, diminish, lessen, lower, reduce, shrink |
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