MAGNIFY


Meaning of MAGNIFY in English

[verb] [T] - to make (something) look larger than it is, esp. by looking at it through a specially cut piece of glassAlthough your skin looks smooth, when magnified it is full of bumps and holes.(disapproving) If you magnify a problem, you make it bigger and more important than it really is.The hot summer magnified the racial tensions in the community.A magnifying glass is a piece of curved glass which makes objects look larger than they are.He uses a magnifying glass to read the tiny print.

Cambridge English vocab.      Кембриджский английский словарь.