grandiloquize

动词 v.

英文释义

动词 v.
  1. To speak in a grandiloquent manner. intransitive
    — Il Riscatto dell’ Italia takes a high flight, and grandiloquizes on the past abjectness and present glory of Italy; whilst the Costituzione and the Costituzionale walk on earth, and advocate moderation in the exercise of a boon which has been granted by the loving Ferdinand to his “amatissimi sudditi.”
  2. To describe (something) in terms that exaggerate its importance or impressiveness. transitive
    — Every now and then, in the cowslip season, her ladyship used to be taken rural, and “babble of green fields.” She would sigh over the advertisements of the auctioneers, grandiloquizing the glories of Richmond Hill or the beauties of Shenley, till “the greenth and gloomth” of Horace Walpole were outdone.

词形变化

grandiloquizes present,singular,third-person grandiloquizing participle,present grandiloquized participle,past grandiloquized past grandiloquise alternative
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