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magnifiable Definition


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magnify
verb magnifies, magnified, magnifying
    1. To make something appear larger, eg by using a microscope or telescope.
      Thesaurus: amplify, enlarge, expand, increase, augment, boost, enhance, inflate, blow up; Antonym: diminish.
    2. To exaggerate something.
      Thesaurus: overstate, exaggerate, embroider, aggrandize, dramatize, overdo; Antonym: belittle, play down.
    3. formal, church or old use
      To praise highly; to extol.
Derivative: magnifiable
adj
    Etymology: 14c: from Latin magnificare, from magnus great.



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