verb
- Increase in size, volume or significance.
- usage: "Her terror was magnified in her mind"
- To enlarge beyond bounds or the truth.
- usage: "tended to romanticize and exaggerate this `gracious Old South' imagery"
- synonyms: overstate, exaggerate, overdraw, hyperbolize, hyperbolise, magnify, amplify
- Make large.
- usage: "blow up an image"
adjective
- Enlarged to an abnormal degree.
- usage: "thick lenses exaggerated the size of her eyes"
- synonyms: exaggerated, enlarged
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