magnify

1. Increase in size, volume or significance (synset 200435030)
   "Her terror was magnified in her mind"
   is a type of: enlarge - become larger or bigger
   same as: amplify
2. To enlarge beyond bounds or the truth (synset 200841513)
   "tended to romanticize and exaggerate this `gracious Old South' imagery"
   is a type of: misinform, mislead - give false or misleading information to
   subtypes:

   • overemphasise, overemphasize, overstress - place special or excessive emphasis on
   • blow, bluster, boast, brag, gas, gasconade, shoot a line, swash, tout, vaunt - show off
   • aggrandise, aggrandize, blow up, dramatise, dramatize, embellish, embroider, lard, pad - add details to
   same as: amplify, exaggerate, hyperbolise, hyperbolize, overdraw, overstate
3. Make large (synset 200241179)
   "blow up an image"
   referred to in: photography, picture taking - the act of taking and printing photographs
   is a type of: increase - make bigger or more
   same as: blow up, enlarge

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