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magnify::verb | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | amplify, exaggerate, hyperbolise, hyperbolize, overdraw, overstate |
| Type of | misinform, mislead |
| Has types | boast, brag, dramatise, dramatize, embellish, embroider, gas, gasconade, lard, overemphasise, overemphasize, overstress, pad, shoot a line, swash, tout, vaunt, aggrandise, aggrandize, blow, blow up, bluster |
| Derivation | magnification |
Examples of magnify
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We are born ready to cooperate, and then we build cultures to magnify this trait.
From the sacbee.com
It could magnify the effect, but it could also conceivably dampen down warming.
From the newscientist.com
Optical lenses, by design, can only magnify light coming in from one direction.
From the nature.com
Not only does it tend to magnify symptoms, but it also demands difficult choices.
From the denverpost.com
It connects to a PC via USB to let you magnify slides and specimens up to 200x.
From the usatoday.com
The media tends to magnify the booms and magnify the busts, generally speaking.
From the guardian.co.uk
Owlish glasses magnify the seemingly perpetual expression of pained skepticism.
From the time.com
What is more, our prejudice against fat tends to magnify this apparent paradox.
From the joshmitteldorf.scienceblog.com
Children are curious and imaginative, and those traits can magnify their fears.
From the suntimes.com
- Increase in size, volume or significance; "Her terror was magnified in her mind"
- Overstate: to enlarge beyond bounds or the truth; "tended to romanticize and exaggerate this `gracious Old South' imagery"
- Blow up: make large; "blow up an image"
- (magnification) the act of expanding something in apparent size
- (magnification) the ratio of the size of an image to the size of the object
- (magnification) exaggeration: making to seem more important than it really is
- Magnify is the fourth studio album from Christian rock band Remedy Drive, and the last album to originally be released under the moniker of Remedy; later pressings of the album have altered to say Remedy Drive.
- (Magnification (album)) Magnification is the seventeenth album by progressive rock band Yes, released in 2001. It was the band's first album of the new century, and their second with a full orchestra (the first being Time and a Word from 1970).
- (Magnification (psychology)) Make a mountain out of a molehill or over-reaction is to make too much of a minor issue. In cognitive psychology, this form of cognitive distortion is called magnification.
