Magnified

6 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  magnified \magnified\ adj.
     enlarged to an abnormal degree.
  
     Syn: exaggerated, enlarged.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Magnify \Mag"ni*fy\, v. t. [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.
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              The least error in a small quantity . . . will in a
              great one . . . be proportionately magnified.
                                                    --Grew.
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     2. To increase the importance of; to augment the esteem or
        respect in which one is held.
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              On that day the Lord magnified Joshua in the sight
              of all Israel.                        --Joshua iv.
                                                    14.
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     3. To praise highly; to laud; to extol. [Archaic]
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              O, magnify the Lord with me, and let us exalt his
              name together.                        --Ps. xxxiv.
                                                    3.
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     4. To exaggerate; as, to magnify a loss or a difficulty.
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     {To magnify one's self} (Script.), to exhibit pride and
        haughtiness; to boast.
  
     {To magnify one's self against} (Script.), to oppose with
        pride.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  magnified
       adj : enlarged to an abnormal degree; "thick lenses exaggerated
             the size of her eyes" [syn: {exaggerated}, {enlarged}]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  magnify
       v 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