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- [1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
magnified \magnified\ adj.
enlarged to an abnormal degree.
syn: exaggerated, enlarged.
wordnet 1.5
- [2] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
magnify \mag"nify\, 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.
1913 webster
the least error in a small quantity . . . will in a
great one . . . be proportionately magnified.
--grew.
1913 webster
2. to increase the importance of; to augment the esteem or
respect in which one is held.
1913 webster
on that day the lord magnified joshua in the sight
of all israel. --joshua iv.
14.
1913 webster
3. to praise highly; to laud; to extol. archaic
1913 webster
o, magnify the lord with me, and let us exalt his
name together. --ps. xxxiv.
3.
1913 webster
4. to exaggerate; as, to magnify a loss or a difficulty.
1913 webster
to magnify one's self script., to exhibit pride and
haughtiness; to boast.
to magnify one's self against script., to oppose with
pride.
1913 webster
see also:
magnified magnifying magnific to magnify one's self to magnify one's self against
- [3] : WordNet (r) 2.0
magnified
adj : enlarged to an abnormal degree; "thick lenses exaggerated
the size of her eyes" syn: exaggerated, enlarged
see also:
exaggerated enlarged
- [4] : 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
see also:
amplify overstate exaggerate overdraw hyperbolize hyerbolise
understate blow up enlarge reduce magnified
- [5] : WordNet (r) 2.0
magnified
see magnify
see also:
magnify
- [6] : Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
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
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