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magnified
Variant of magnify
transitive verb magnified, magnifying
- Rare to make greater in size, status, or importance; enlarge
- to cause to seem greater, more important, etc. than is really so; exaggerate: to magnify one's sufferings
- to cause to seem larger than is really so; increase the apparent size of, esp. by means of a lens or lenses
- Archaic to glorify; praise; extol
intransitive verb
to have the power of increasing the apparent size of an object, as a microscope does
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