Magnified

magnified
    adj 1: enlarged to an abnormal degree; "thick lenses exaggerated
           the size of her eyes" [syn: {exaggerated}, {magnified},
           {enlarged}]
    

magnified \magnified\ adj.
   enlarged to an abnormal degree.

   Syn: exaggerated, enlarged.
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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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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