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Magnify

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Verb

1. amplify, magnify

increase in size, volume or significance

Example Sentences:
'Her terror was magnified in her mind'

2. amplify, exaggerate, hyperbolise, hyperbolize, magnify, overdraw, overstate

to enlarge beyond bounds or the truth

Example Sentences:
'tended to romanticize and exaggerate this gracious Old South' imagery'

3. blow up, enlarge, magnify

make large

Example Sentences:
'blow up an image'

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.


Magnify

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verb -fies, -fying or -fied
1. 
to increase, cause to increase, or be increased in apparent size, as through the action of a lens, microscope, etc
2. 
to exaggerate or become exaggerated in importance
don't magnify your troubles
3. (transitive) rare
to increase in actual size
4. (transitive) archaic
to glorify

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Magnify

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verb transitiveWord forms: ˈmagniˌfied or ˈmagniˌfying
1.  Rare
to make greater in size, status, or importance; enlarge
2. 
to cause to seem greater, more important, etc. than is really so; exaggerate
to magnify one's sufferings
3. 
to cause to seem larger than is really so; increase the apparent size of, esp. by means of a lens or lenses
4.  Archaic
to glorify; praise; extol
verb intransitive
5. 
to have the power of increasing the apparent size of an object, as a microscope does

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Magnify

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v. mag·ni·fied, mag·ni·fy·ing, mag·ni·fies
v.tr.
1.
a. To increase the apparent size of (an object), especially by means of a lens, instrument, or device.
b. To increase the volume of (sound): "Canyons magnified the thunder" (John Vernon).
2. To make more intense or extreme: High winds magnified the danger.
3. To cause to appear greater, more important, or more extreme than is in fact the case: Her mistakes were magnified in the tabloid press. See Synonyms at exaggerate.
4. Archaic To glorify or praise.
v.intr.
To increase or have the power to increase the size or volume of an image or a sound.

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