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[mag-nuh-fahy]

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verb (used with object)

to increase the apparent size of, as a lens does.

to make greater in actual size; enlarge: to magnify a drawing in preparing for a fresco.

to cause to seem greater or more important; attribute too much importance to; exaggerate: to magnify one's difficulties.

to make more exciting; intensify; dramatize; heighten: The playwright magnified the conflict to get her point across.

Archaic. to extol; praise: to magnify the Lord.

verb (used without object)

to increase or be able to increase the apparent or actual size of an object.

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Origin:
1350–1400; Middle English magnifien < Latin magnificāre. See magni-, -fy

Related forms

mag·ni·fi·a·ble, adjective

o·ver·mag·ni·fy, verb (used with object), -fied, -fy·ing.

re·mag·ni·fy, verb (used with object), -fied, -fy·ing.

un·mag·ni·fied, adjective

un·mag·ni·fy·ing, adjective

Synonyms
2. augment, increase, amplify. 3. overstate.

Antonyms
1, 2. reduce. 3. minimize.

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Example Sentences

Down the road, this crisis will magnify as doctors leave this demanding field or retire.

Adopt neutral congressional district borders to magnify that effect.

Urban development can magnify the risk of environmental hazards such as flash flooding.

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Down the road, this crisis will magnify as doctors leave this demanding field or retire.

Adopt neutral congressional district borders to magnify that effect.

Urban development can magnify the risk of environmental hazards such as flash flooding.

Obviously the process of the sort will magnify the cars probabilities in these remaining boxes.

Conventional microscopes use lenses to magnify whatever is in the line of sight.

Another method uses an intervening star to gravitationally magnify the light from a more distant star with planets.

Their heavily leveraged balance sheets magnify even a small rise in delinquencies.

Derivatives' tendency to magnify problems has led to calls for regulators to ban some types.

Many exhibit the onset of traits that evolution would magnify in later species.

To manually focus you will use the electronic viewfinder and have it magnify a section of the image for you.

Use the zoom tool, below at the right, to magnify the text.

Instead of districts drawn to magnify the power of the right, these new districts will be drawn to magnify the power of the left.

If you magnify the slides, the detail of the artwork will blow your mind.

With these he made a suck-on carousel of macro lenses which will magnify close-up shots taken with the iPhone.

They live in improvised tents, sleeping beneath flimsy sheets of plastic that magnify the heat and welcome the rain.

Also magnify your positive emotional responses by the same amount and that is what ecstasy feels like.

The extreme close-up view and the dark, high-contrast printing magnify every pore on his face.

The results suggest that each of these factors acts to magnify the impact of the other.

If you can, you're going to magnify return on investment and good will.

And this should magnify our effort now to reward them with our respect and memory.

Thin trading also tended to magnify price movements.

The real issue is not experience, though it does magnify the problem.

In such a situation, the slightest wound will magnify.

If you magnify you have to scroll right and left to finish reading a line.

Researchers are asking if there is a way to magnify the results seen here by many times.

Thus, deleveraging it has lost its original meaning: using debt to magnify returns on an investment.

Usually a microsurgical technique is used, in which a microscope helps magnify the surgical area.

The effect of creating mega banks was to magnify any problem into a mega problem.

The imagery-created with any of a number of techniques that magnify and.

But many fret that these funds have the potential to magnify losses as well as amplify gains.

When you magnify it, it rushes away from you and becomes a simulacrum of its larger self, eventually infinitely long.

Live view also helps with manual focusing, since you can magnify the preview on the screen.

These are commonly found in lighthouses to magnify light in a way that would normally require a much larger, thicker lens.

Economic crises obviously magnify these tendencies.

Small circles surrounded the larger orange circle to magnify its apparent size.

One method is to sell everything as cheaply as possible and magnify a tiny profit through.

Quarrels that were part of the marriage began to magnify and cascade as the anger took on a life of its own.

Place them in positions of power and you only magnify these imperfections.

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World English Dictionary

magnify (ˈmæɡnɪˌfaɪ)

—vb , -fies, -fying, -fied
1.	to increase, cause to increase, or be increased in apparent size, as through the action of a lens, microscope, etc
2.	to exaggerate or become exaggerated in importance: don't magnify your troubles
3.	rare (tr) to increase in actual size
4.	archaic (tr) to glorify

[C14: via Old French from Latin magnificāre to praise; see magnific]

'magnifiable

—*adj*

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Word Origin & History

magnify

late 14c., "to speak or act for the glory or honor (of someone or something)," from O.Fr. magnifier, from L. magnificare "esteem greatly, extol," from magnificus "splendid" (see magnificence). Meaning of "use a telescope or microscope" is first attested 1660s. Related: Magnifying.

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Medical Dictionary

magnify mag·ni·fy (māg'nə-fī')
v. mag·ni·fied, mag·ni·fy·ing, mag·ni·fies
To increase the apparent size of, especially with a lens.

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