aggrandize vs demean

aggrandize

verb
  • To make appear great or greater; to exalt. 

  • To make great or greater in power, rank, honor, or wealth (applied to persons, countries, etc.). 

  • To make great; to enlarge; to increase. 

  • To increase or become great. 

demean

verb
  • To debase; to lower; to degrade. 

  • To subtract the mean from (a value, or every observation in a dataset). 

  • To mortify. 

  • To humble, humble oneself; to humiliate. 

noun
  • resources; means. 

  • demesne. 

How often have the words aggrandize and demean occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )