aggrandize

Proponents of peace must overcome the tendency to self-destructively aggrandize the settlements.

They only cared to aggrandize themselves, without thought of national feeling or geographical conditions.

His ambition was not to secure for himself ease or luxury, but to extend his imperial power, and to aggrandize his family.

The Master proceeded to show that a man who speaks on his own authority alone seeks to aggrandize himself.

It resisted, in the lower classes, the attempt of the church to suppress it in order to aggrandize the corporation.

She did not try to aggrandize herself at their expense, nor did she take up weapons against them.