MAGNIFY


Meaning of MAGNIFY in English

verb

COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES

magnifying glass

COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS

■ NOUN

times

Everything Suzanna had made me feel was alive again, magnified a hundred times .

EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

Binoculars magnify far-off objects.

Her eyes were magnified by her thick glasses.

Our lack of information magnified our mistakes.

The image is magnified by a series of lenses within the telescope.

This microscope can magnify an object up to forty times.

This report tends to magnify the risks involved.

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

But they were obvious to most people, even though they were magnified by those who didn't know him well.

In doing so, he has magnified his reputation and career a thousandfold.

On bad teams those inevitable difficulties tend to get magnified.

Techshare gains were magnified by portfolio borrowings that last summer equaled about 15 cents for each dollar invested.

Toy problems may converge in a reasonable amount of time; real problems may magnify the task beyond reasonable limits.

Yet the former were magnified a hundredfold in terms of publicity.

Your watchful siblings are the editors perched on your lamp shade, magnifying glasses poised to catch your mistakes.

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