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to make someone or something seem more important or better than they really are in English:

1. glorify glorify


To glorify is to praise or honor something or someone to an extreme degree.
To glorify is to praise or honor something or someone to an extreme degree. If you like someone, you might compliment or praise them, but glorifying takes that a step further.
To raise one's name in later generations and thereby glorify one's parents, this is the greatest expression of filial piety.

English word "to make someone or something seem more important or better than they really are"(glorify) occurs in sets:

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