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单词 magnify
释义
magnify
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To magnify is to make something bigger, whether in size or in significance.
A magnifying glass makes things look bigger and when anything is magnified, it gets larger in some way. If your hunger is magnified, you've gotten hungrier. Wearing a heavy coat on a hot day will magnify the heat: you're feeling hotter and hotter. Also, non-physical things get magnified. The press could magnify a story by discussing it over and over, making it a bigger story than it was originally. All types of magnifying make things bigger.
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USAGE EXAMPLES
Two main classes of figurative language, Pope argued, were responsible: “the Magnifying” and “the Diminishing.”
The New Yorker(Dec 31, 2016)
“Under President-elect Trump, a developer himself, he will magnify the need for a program like this,” he said at the event, according to the publication.
Washington Times(Dec 28, 2016)
Investigators targeted more than 280 nail bars as part of the government's Operation Magnify drive targeting "risk" industries.
BBC(Dec 27, 2016)
1v increase in size, volume or significance
Her terror was magnified in her mind
Syn|Hyper
amplify
enlarge
become larger or bigger
2v make large
Syn|Ant|Hyper
blow up, enlarge
reduce, scale down
make smaller
increase
make bigger or more
3v to enlarge beyond bounds or the truth
Syn|Ant|Hypo|Hyper
amplify, exaggerate, hyperbolise, hyperbolize, overdraw, overstate
downplay, minimise, minimize, understate
represent as less significant or important
overemphasise, overemphasize, overstress
place special or excessive emphasis on
blow, bluster, boast, brag, gas, gasconade, shoot a line, swash, tout, vaunt
show off
aggrandise, aggrandize, blow up, dramatise, dramatize, embellish, embroider, lard, pad
add details to
glorify
cause to seem more splendid
puff
speak in a blustering or scornful manner
crow, gloat, triumph
dwell on with satisfaction
misinform, mislead
give false or misleading information to
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