"magnified" in the verb sense
1. magnify, amplify
increase in size, volume or significance
"Her terror was magnified in her mind"
2. overstate, exaggerate, overdraw, hyperbolize, hyperbolise, magnify, amplify
to enlarge beyond bounds or the truth
"tended to romanticize and exaggerate this `gracious Old South' imagery"
3. blow up, enlarge, magnify
make large
"blow up an image"
"magnified" in the adjective sense
1. exaggerated, magnified, enlarged
enlarged to an abnormal degree
"thick lenses exaggerated the size of her eyes"
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