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"magnify" in English
magnify
verb [ T ] UK US
to make something look larger than it is, especially by looking at it through a lens:
Although our skin looks smooth, when magnified it is full of bumps and holes.
binoculars chromatic aberration converging lens diffuse reflection electron microscope eyepiece
focus laser laser-guided magnifier microscopy opera glasses Polaroid
powerful reflective refract resolution slide spyglass transparency
You can also find related words, phrases, and synonyms in the topics:
Enlarging and inflating
Increasing and intensifying
(Definition of “magnify” from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)
American
magnify
verb [ T ] US
to make something look larger than it is, esp. by looking at it through a special piece of glass:
Although your skin looks smooth, when magnified you can see a lot of little bumps and holes.
FIG. To magnify something is also to make it seem more important or more serious than it really is:
He always magnifies the problems and inconveniences of travel.
(Definition of “magnify” from the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)
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Examples of “magnify”
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Programs that do not typically encounter problems that eventually cascade and become magnified through the product development and
production phases.
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Contrary to expectations this growth in the production of consumer goods merely postpones and then magnifies the problem.
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Except that here the silence is magnified by the context, to proportions which far exceed anything that might be conveyed within song
alone.
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All these feelings of shock, hurt, helplessness and disappointment that have been explored antenatally are often magnified at the birth of
an undiagnosed cleft baby.
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Problems of boundary definition are significantly magnified in the highly trabeculated right ventricle.
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The axis cells are alive, except a part of the epidermis, which is magnified in the inset (cell walls highlighted).
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Microphone: used as a tool for capturing sounds, but also used as a magnifying tool to listen to the scarcely audible.
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Performers who have readied themselves to perform, and are then required to wait in the wings, find their anxiety is magnified.
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Even with these safeguards, his fears are magnified tenfold when his imagined threat of other men becomes a reality.
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In frozen soils, this influence seems to be magnified by the added presence of pore ice.
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