magnify
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(verb) increase in size, volume or significance: "Her terror was magnified in her mind." |
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Synonyms: amplify |
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Related Words: enlarge |
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(verb) make large; "blow up an image" |
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Synonyms: blow up, enlarge |
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Related Words: increase |
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(verb) to enlarge beyond bounds or the truth: " tended to romanticize and exaggerate this ``gracious Old_South'' imagery." |
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Synonyms: amplify, exaggerate, hyperbolize, overdraw, overstate |
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Related Words: aggrandize, blow, blow up, bluster, boast, brag, dramatise, dramatize, embellish, embroider, emphasise, gas, gasconade, lard, misinform, mislead, overemphasize, overstress, pad, shoot a line, swash, tout, vaunt |
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