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Defenition of the word magnify

    • Defenition of the word magnify

      • To elevate someone to a higher grade or dignity.
      • make large; "blow up an image"
      • increase in size, volume or significance: "Her terror was magnified in her mind."
      • to enlarge beyond bounds or the truth: " tended to romanticize and exaggerate this ``gracious Old_South'' imagery."
      • increase in size, volume or significance; "Her terror was magnified in her mind"
      • to enlarge beyond bounds or the truth; "tended to romanticize and exaggerate this `gracious Old South'' imagery"
      • make large
      • increase in size, volume or significance
      • to enlarge beyond bounds or the truth

    Synonyms for the word magnify

      • amplify
      • blow up
      • enlarge
      • exaggerate
      • expand
      • hyperbolize
      • increase
      • overdraw
      • overstate

    Similar words in the magnify

      • magnify
      • magnifying

    Hyponyms for the word magnify

      • aggrandise
      • aggrandize
      • blow
      • blow up
      • bluster
      • boast
      • brag
      • dramatise
      • dramatize
      • embellish
      • embroider
      • gas
      • gasconade
      • lard
      • overemphasise
      • overemphasize
      • overstress
      • pad
      • shoot a line
      • swash
      • tout
      • vaunt

    Hypernyms for the word magnify

      • enlarge
      • increase
      • misinform
      • mislead

    Antonyms for the word magnify

      • downplay
      • minimise
      • minimize
      • reduce
      • scale down
      • understate

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