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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Magnify \Mag"ni*fy\, verb (used with an object) [imp. & p. p. {Magnified}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Magnifying}.] [OE. magnifien, F. magnifier, L. magnificare. See {Magnific}.]
1. To make great, or greater; to increase the dimensions of; to amplify; to enlarge, either in fact or in appearance; as, the microscope magnifies the object by a thousand diameters.
The least error in a small quantity . . . will in a great one . . . be proportionately magnified. --Grew.
2. To increase the importance of; to augment the esteem or respect in which one is held.
On that day the Lord magnified Joshua in the sight of all Israel. --Joshua iv. 14.
3. To praise highly; to laud; to extol. [Archaic]
O, magnify the Lord with me, and let us exalt his name together. --Ps. xxxiv. 3.
4. To exaggerate; as, to magnify a loss or a difficulty.
{To magnify one's self} (Script.), to exhibit pride and haughtiness; to boast.
{To magnify one's self against} (Script.), to oppose with pride.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
magnified \magnified\ adjective enlarged to an abnormal degree.
Syn: exaggerated, enlarged. [WordNet 1.5]
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
magnified
adjective: enlarged to an abnormal degree; "thick lenses exaggerated the size of her eyes" [syn: {exaggerated}, {enlarged}]
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
magnify
verb
1: increase in size, volume or significance; "Her terror was magnified in her mind" [syn: {amplify}]
2: to enlarge beyond bounds or the truth; "tended to romanticize and exaggerate this 'gracious Old South' imagery" [syn: {overstate}, {exaggerate}, {overdraw}, {hyperbolize}, {hyerbolise}, {amplify}] [ant: {understate}]
3: make large; "blow up an image" [syn: {blow up}, {enlarge}] [ant: {reduce}] [also: {magnified}]
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
magnified See {magnify}
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
100 Moby Thesaurus words for "magnified": accelerated, aggrandized, aggravated, amplified, annoyed, apotheosized, augmented, awesome, ballyhooed, beatified, beefed-up, big, bloated, boosted, broadened, canonized, deepened, deified, deliberately provoked, disproportionate, elevated, embittered, eminent, enhanced, enlarged, ennobled, enshrined, enthroned, exacerbated, exaggerated, exalted, exasperated, excellent, excessive, exorbitant, expanded, extended, extravagant, extreme, glorified, grand, grandiloquent, great, heated up, heightened, held in awe, high, high and mighty, high-flown, hiked, hotted up, hyperbolic, immortal, immortalized, increased, inflated, inordinate, intensified, irritated, jazzed up, lofty, mighty, multiplied, overdone, overdrawn, overemphasized, overemphatic, overestimated, overgreat, overlarge, overpraised, oversold, overstated, overstressed, overwrought, prodigal, profuse, proliferated, provoked, puffed, raised, reinforced, sainted, sanctified, shrined, soured, spread, stiffened, strengthened, stretched, sublime, supereminent, superlative, swollen, throned, tightened, touted, widened, worse, worsened
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