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Meaning magnify meaning

What does magnify mean?
Definitions in simple English

magnify Verb

— If you magnify something, you make it bigger, or you make it seem bigger. I need to magnify the words in my book because the letters are too small. Don't magnify your problems.

magnify

— verb increase in size, volume or significance Her terror was magnified in her mind — verb (= blow up) make large blow up an image — verb (= exaggerate) to enlarge beyond bounds or the truth tended to romanticize and exaggerate this 'gracious Old South' imagery

Synonyms magnify synonyms

What other words have the same or similar meaning as magnify?

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Topics magnify topics

What do people use magnify to talk about?
Language and thought Communication Say

Praise
Social behavior Authority

Honor
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Conjugation magnify conjugation

How do you conjugate magnify?

magnify · verb

Examples magnify examples

How do I use magnify in a sentence?

Movie subtitles

My soul doth magnify the Lord. and my spirit doth rejoice in God, my savior.
You surely noticed that I stressed the last motif much more distinctly, already as a quasi pesant, and don't magnify it.
When you magnify the spectrum with a telescope, as Joseph Fraunhofer did, you raise the curtain on the electron dance within the atom.
Magnify it, please, Lt La Forge.
If this can pick up or magnify thought-altering transmissions.
I wouldn't magnify it out of proportion.
Magnify section 285.
Magnify.
Magnify, Mr Worf.
Magnify. Times 20.
Put it on the main viewer. Magnify.
Computer, scan left and magnify.
Let's isolate and magnify that system.
I'm just asking you not to magnify this story too much and to protect my anonymity a bit longer.
I wanted to magnify the film, so I just put it between two glass slides.
Magnify it, please, Lt. La Forge.
Magnify the screen.
It started after Dr. Crusher ordered the scanner to magnify.
Computer, magnify.
Magnify!
Because whenever you think about this person in terms of the future, you have to magnify everything about them.
Magnify sector Gamma three and enhance.
The mirrors reflect each of your betrayals, magnify them and drive you into madness.
Can you isolate one and magnify?
Magnify this section and enhance.
Magnify, Mr. Kim.
The naqahdah in the gate will magnify the explosion.
Isolate grid 925 and magnify.
I like to play with it-- cut out what I don't like. distort.magnify.
Magnify 100 times.

News and current affairs

Of course, a government can also close a budget gap by raising taxes, but any sudden shift can significantly magnify the distortions that taxes cause.
After the bubble bursts, the same contagion fuels a precipitous collapse, as falling prices cause more and more people to exit the market, and to magnify negative stories about the economy.
But no one knows who is holding how much of these derivatives, or whether they reduce or magnify the risk, because CDSs are not transparently traded on open exchanges.
The stories themselves help magnify the boom, becoming part of the feedback that sustains it.
International capital flows will also magnify such demographic spillover effects, as capital is traded at the interest rates determined in large industrial economies.
Banks magnify the boom by making credit too easily available, and they exacerbate the bust by withdrawing it too abruptly.
Europe's non-eurozone surplus countries - Sweden, Denmark, Switzerland, and Norway (all of which tie their exchange rates to the euro to some degree) - magnify this global imbalance.
By contrast, opponents predict that the change will increase rates of marijuana use, and thus magnify the harm arising from that use.
Differences, real or manufactured, are easy to magnify and exploit.

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