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Adjective magnified has 1 sense
- exaggerated, magnified, enlarged - enlarged to an abnormal degree; "thick lenses exaggerated the size of her eyes"
Antonyms: decreased, reduced (indirect, via increased)
Verb magnify has 3 senses
- magnify, amplify - increase in size, volume or significance; "Her terror was magnified in her mind"
--1 is one way to enlarge
Sample sentences:
Something ----s
Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something
- overstate, exaggerate, overdraw, hyperbolize, hyerbolise, magnify, amplify - to enlarge beyond bounds or the truth; "tended to romanticize and exaggerate this `gracious Old South' imagery"
--2 is one way to misinform, mislead
Sample sentence:
Somebody ----s something
- blow up, enlarge, magnify - make large; "blow up an image"
--3 is one way to increase
Sample sentence:
Somebody ----s something
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