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magnify

[ mag-nuh-fahy ]

verb (used with object)

magnified, magnifying.
  1. to increase the apparent size of, as a lens does.

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  2. to make greater in actual size; enlarge:

    to magnify a drawing in preparing for a fresco.

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  3. to cause to seem greater or more important; attribute too much importance to; exaggerate:

    to magnify one's difficulties.

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  4. to make more exciting; intensify; dramatize; heighten:

    The playwright magnified the conflict to get her point across.

  5. Archaic. to extol; praise:

    to magnify the Lord.



verb (used without object)

magnified, magnifying.
  1. to increase or be able to increase the apparent or actual size of an object.

magnify

/ 藞尘忙伞苍瑟藢蹿补瑟 /

verb

  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. rare.
    tr to increase in actual size
  4. archaic.
    tr to glorify
鈥淐ollins English Dictionary 鈥 Complete & Unabridged鈥 2012 Digital Edition 漏 William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 漏 HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Derived Forms

  • 藞尘补驳苍颈藢蹿颈补产濒别, adjective
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Other 亚洲网紅露点 Forms

  • 尘补驳顎僴颈路蹿颈顎卆路产濒别 adjective
  • 辞顎卾别谤路尘补驳顎僴颈路蹿测顎 verb (used with object) overmagnified overmagnifying
  • 谤别路尘补驳顎僴颈路蹿测顎 verb (used with object) remagnified remagnifying
  • 耻苍路尘补驳顎僴颈路蹿颈别诲顎 adjective
  • 耻苍路尘补驳顎僴颈路蹿测顎卛苍驳 adjective
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亚洲网紅露点 History and Origins

Origin of magnify1

1350鈥1400; Middle English magnifien < Latin 尘补驳苍颈蹿颈肠腻谤别. See magni-, -fy
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亚洲网紅露点 History and Origins

Origin of magnify1

C14: via Old French from Latin 尘补驳苍颈蹿颈肠腻谤别 to praise; see magnific
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For the brown hairstreak, both charities rely on volunteers going out in the middle of winter to look for tiny, pinhead-sized eggs on twigs using magnifying glasses.

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"Anxiety gets magnified when young people are under further strain and stress," she says.

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His dominance at the back is so assuring for the rest of the team - mistakes he makes are magnified because of the colossus that he is.

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Wealth, real or perceived, can dictate access, status and opportunity - and the presence of the diaspora can magnify the class divide.

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Given that Perkins is still fresh off the success of his excellent breakout film 鈥淟onglegs,鈥 the frustration is only magnified.

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