Synonyms for magnify
ˈmæg nəˌfaɪmag·ni·fy

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1. magnify

   Synonyms:
   aggravate, amplify, continue, develop, enhance, enlarge, extend, foment, increase, rage, raise, revive

   Antonyms:
   abate, decline, decrease, diminish, ebb, lessen, lower, mitigate, moderate, reduce, subside

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1. magnify

   Synonyms:
   enlarge, amplify, increase, augment, exaggerate, laud, extol

   Antonyms:
   diminish, contract, curtail, palliate, extenuate, decry

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1. magnify, amplifyverb

   increase in size, volume or significance

   "Her terror was magnified in her mind"

   Synonyms:
   exaggerate, blow up, amplify, hyperbolise, enlarge, overdraw, expand, hyperbolize, inflate, overstate

2. overstate, exaggerate, overdraw, hyperbolize, hyperbolise, magnify, amplifyverb

   to enlarge beyond bounds or the truth

   "tended to romanticize and exaggerate this `gracious Old South' imagery"

   Synonyms:
   exaggerate, blow up, amplify, hyperbolise, enlarge, overdraw, expand, overdo, hyperbolize, inflate, overstate

3. blow up, enlarge, magnifyverb

   make large

   "blow up an image"

   Synonyms:
   go ballistic, lucubrate, expatiate, puff out, exposit, detonate, have kittens, flip one's wig, embroider, puff up, expound, flesh out, puff, hit the roof, explode, throw a fit, combust, flip one's lid, expand, dilate, amplify, pad, embellish, lard, fly off the handle, set off, lose one's temper, overstate, blow a fuse, enlarge, hit the ceiling, blow up, exaggerate, aggrandise, have a fit, dramatise, elaborate, inflate, aggrandize, overdraw, hyperbolize, hyperbolise, dramatize, blow one's stack

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1. • Enlarge
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1. make bigger

   Submitted by anonymous on December 18, 2019  

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1. magnifyverb

   Synonyms:
   enlarge, augment, amplify, exaggerate, make great, increase the size of (to the eye)

2. magnifyverb

   Synonyms:
   extol, exalt, elevate, celebrate, glorify, bless, laud, praise highly

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1. magnifyverb

   Synonyms:
   augment, amplify, enlarge, overstate, exaggerate

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1. List of paraphrases for "magnify":

   amplify, enlarge, optimizes

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How to use magnify in a sentence?

1. Samuel Beckett:

   How can one better magnify the Almighty than by sniggering with him at his little jokes, particularly the poorer ones.

2. Gavin Heffernan:

   The 25-30 second exposures reveal more stars and planets up above, they also magnify the lights on the ground, so even cities 100 miles away were blasting out our photos with floods of light.

3. Feltham:

   We magnify the wealthy man, though his parts be never so poor. The poor man we despise, be he never so well qualified. Gold is the coverlet of imperfections. It is the fool?s curtain, which hides all his defects from the world.

4. Gretchen Whitmer:

   Right outside my office right now, people have come to town who are not wearing masks, they are not observing the six-foot distance, give me some advice. How can I magnify what you're seeing and what you're experiencing ?

5. Hudson Henry:

   You do not want to be looking through the viewfinder at the sun with your eye, it is only going to magnify it into your eye.