magnify Definition

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.