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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 : [ gcide ]
Magnify \Mag"ni*fy\, 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.
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3. To praise highly; to laud; to extol. [Archaic]
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O, magnify the Lord with me, and let us exalt his
name together. --Ps. xxxiv.
3.
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4. To exaggerate; as, to magnify a loss or a difficulty.
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To magnify one's self (Script.), to exhibit pride and
haughtiness; to boast.
To magnify one's self against (Script.), to oppose with
pride.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 : [ gcide ]
magnified \magnified\ adj.
enlarged to an abnormal degree.
Syn: exaggerated, enlarged.
[WordNet 1.5]
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) : [ web1913 ]
Magnify \Mag"ni*fy\, 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.
The least error in a small quantity . . . will in a
great one . . . be proportionately magnified.
--Grew.
2. To increase the importance of; to augment the esteem or
respect in which one is held.
On that day the Lord magnified Joshua in the sight
of all Israel. --Joshua iv.
14.
3. To praise highly; to land; to extol. [Archaic]
O, magnify the Lord with me, and let us exalt his
name together. --Ps. xxxiv.
3.
4. To exaggerate; as, to magnify a loss or a difficulty.
To magnify one's self (Script.), to exhibit pride and
haughtiness; to boast.
To magnify one's self against (Script.), to oppose with
pride.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 : [ wn ]
magnified
adj : enlarged to an abnormal degree; "thick lenses exaggerated
the size of her eyes" [syn: exaggerated, enlarged]
From WordNet (r) 2.0 : [ wn ]
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]
From WordNet (r) 2.0 : [ wn ]
magnified
See magnify
From English Wiktionary: All languages (2023-07-27) : [ dictinfo.com:wikt-en-ALL-2023-07-27 ]
magnified
a.
Having been visually enlarged by the process of magnification.
vb.
(infl of en magnify ed-form)
From English Wiktionary: English language only (2023-07-27) : [ dictinfo.com:wikt-en-en-2023-07-27 ]
magnified
a.
Having been visually enlarged by the process of magnification.
vb.
(infl of en magnify ed-form)
From English Wiktionary: Western, Greek, and Slavonic languages only (2023-07-27) : [ dictinfo.com:wikt-en-Western_Greek_Slavonic-2023-07-27 ]
magnified
a.
Having been visually enlarged by the process of magnification.
vb.
(infl of en magnify ed-form)
From English Wiktionary: Western languages only (2023-07-27) : [ dictinfo.com:wikt-en-Western-2023-07-27 ]
magnified
a.
Having been visually enlarged by the process of magnification.
vb.
(infl of en magnify ed-form)
From Swedish Wiktionary: All languages (2023-07-27) : [ dictinfo.com:wikt-sv-ALL-2023-07-27 ]
magnified
Engelska a.
(avledning en magnify ordform=perfpart)
Engelska vb.
(böjning en verb magnify)
From English-Arabic FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.6.3 : [ freedict:eng-ara ]Magnified /mˈaɡnɪfˌaɪd/ مكبّرFrom English-Czech dicts.info/FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.1.3 : [ freedict:eng-ces ]
magnified /mˈaɡnɪfˌaɪd/From English-Czech dicts.info/FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.1.3 : [ freedict:eng-ces ]přehnaný
magnified /mˈaɡnɪfˌaɪd/From English - German Ding/FreeDict dictionary ver. 1.9-fd1 : [ freedict:eng-deu ]zvětšený
magnified /mˈaɡnɪfˌaɪd/ vergrößert see: magnify, magnifying, unmagnifiedFrom English-Croatian FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.2.2 : [ freedict:eng-hrv ]
magnified /mˈaɡnɪfˌaɪd/ povećanFrom IPA:en_US : [ IPA:en_US ]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 : [ moby-thesaurus ]/ˈmæɡnəˌfaɪd/
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