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What does aggrandising mean?

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Verb
  1. present participle of aggrandise
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Assigning inevitability to Islamist terror attacks risks aggrandising the terrorist in his own mind as well as that of the public.
However the reason I can't stomach Russell Brand or take anything he says seriously is because he's a self aggrandising, arrogant, immature fop who talks twaddle.
And also getting a free programme aggrandising myself printed in the process.
In his oil sketches, you can see how Rubens danced to the not-so-delicate tunes of his ecclesiastical paylords, aggrandising a donor here, taking an unloved saint down a peg or two.
However good their intentions, they'd risk aggrandising themselves and diminishing or insulting their subject.
That sounds a lot, until you reflect that using the same aggrandising tactic, the Government will spend nearly £4.2 trillion on welfare over the same period.

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