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magnify

transitive verb magnified, magnifying

  1. Rare to make greater in size, status, or importance; enlarge
  2. to cause to seem greater, more important, etc. than is really so; exaggerate: to magnify one's sufferings
  3. to cause to seem larger than is really so; increase the apparent size of, esp. by means of a lens or lenses
  4. Archaic to glorify; praise; extol

intransitive verb

to have the power of increasing the apparent size of an object, as a microscope does

See magnify in American Heritage Dictionary 4

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