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MAGNIFY

Definition:

1. [verb] increase in size, volume or significance; "Her terror was magnified in her mind"
   Synonyms: amplify
   
   
2. [verb] to enlarge beyond bounds or the truth; "tended to romanticize and exaggerate this `gracious Old South' imagery"
   Synonyms: overstate, exaggerate, overdraw, hyperbolize, hyerbolise, amplify
   
   
3. [verb] make large; "blow up an image"
   Synonyms: blow up, enlarge
   
   

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Related Words:

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

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