magnified \magnified\ adj.
enlarged to an abnormal degree.
Syn: exaggerated, enlarged.
[WordNet 1.5]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Magnify \Mag"ni*fy\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Magnified; p. pr. &
vb. n. Magnifying.] [OE. magnifien, F. magnifier, L.
magnificare. See Magnific.]
1. To make great, or greater; to increase the dimensions of;
to amplify; to enlarge, either in fact or in appearance;
as, the microscope magnifies the object by a thousand
diameters.
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The least error in a small quantity . . . will in a
great one . . . be proportionately magnified.
--Grew.
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2. To increase the importance of; to augment the esteem or
respect in which one is held.
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On that day the Lord magnified Joshua in the sight
of all Israel. --Joshua iv.
14.
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3. To praise highly; to laud; to extol. [Archaic]
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O, magnify the Lord with me, and let us exalt his
name together. --Ps. xxxiv.
3.
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4. To exaggerate; as, to magnify a loss or a difficulty.
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To magnify one's self (Script.), to exhibit pride and
haughtiness; to boast.
To magnify one's self against (Script.), to oppose with
pride.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
magnified
adj : enlarged to an abnormal degree; "thick lenses exaggerated
the size of her eyes" [syn: exaggerated, enlarged]
WordNet (r) 2.0
magnify
v 1: increase in size, volume or significance; "Her terror was
magnified in her mind" [syn: amplify]
2: to enlarge beyond bounds or the truth; "tended to
romanticize and exaggerate this `gracious Old South'
imagery" [syn: overstate, exaggerate, overdraw, hyperbolize,
hyerbolise, amplify] [ant: understate]
3: make large; "blow up an image" [syn: blow up, enlarge]
[ant: reduce]
[also: magnified]
WordNet (r) 2.0
magnified
See magnify
WordNet (r) 2.0
100 Moby Thesaurus words for "magnified":
accelerated, aggrandized, aggravated, amplified, annoyed,
apotheosized, augmented, awesome, ballyhooed, beatified, beefed-up,
big, bloated, boosted, broadened, canonized, deepened, deified,
deliberately provoked, disproportionate, elevated, embittered,
eminent, enhanced, enlarged, ennobled, enshrined, enthroned,
exacerbated, exaggerated, exalted, exasperated, excellent,
excessive, exorbitant, expanded, extended, extravagant, extreme,
glorified, grand, grandiloquent, great, heated up, heightened,
held in awe, high, high and mighty, high-flown, hiked, hotted up,
hyperbolic, immortal, immortalized, increased, inflated,
inordinate, intensified, irritated, jazzed up, lofty, mighty,
multiplied, overdone, overdrawn, overemphasized, overemphatic,
overestimated, overgreat, overlarge, overpraised, oversold,
overstated, overstressed, overwrought, prodigal, profuse,
proliferated, provoked, puffed, raised, reinforced, sainted,
sanctified, shrined, soured, spread, stiffened, strengthened,
stretched, sublime, supereminent, superlative, swollen, throned,
tightened, touted, widened, worse, worsened
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
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