| 单词 | magnify |
| 释义 | magnify (once / 834 pages) v To magnify is to make something bigger, whether in size or in significance. A magnifying glass makes things look bigger and when anything is magnified, it gets larger in some way. If your hunger is magnified, you've gotten hungrier. Wearing a heavy coat on a hot day will magnify the heat: you're feeling hotter and hotter. Also, non-physical things get magnified. The press could magnify a story by discussing it over and over, making it a bigger story than it was originally. All types of magnifying make things bigger. WORD FAMILYmagnify: magnification, magnified, magnifier, magnifies, magnifying+/magnification: magnifications/magnifier: magnifiers USAGE EXAMPLESTwo main classes of figurative language, Pope argued, were responsible: “the Magnifying” and “the Diminishing.” The New Yorker(Dec 31, 2016) “Under President-elect Trump, a developer himself, he will magnify the need for a program like this,” he said at the event, according to the publication. Washington Times(Dec 28, 2016) Investigators targeted more than 280 nail bars as part of the government's Operation Magnify drive targeting "risk" industries. BBC(Dec 27, 2016) 1v increase in size, volume or significance Her terror was magnified in her mind Syn|Hyper amplify enlarge become larger or bigger 2v make large Syn|Ant|Hyper blow up, enlarge reduce, scale down make smaller increase make bigger or more 3v to enlarge beyond bounds or the truth Syn|Ant|Hypo|Hyper amplify, exaggerate, hyperbolise, hyperbolize, overdraw, overstate downplay, minimise, minimize, understate represent as less significant or important overemphasise, overemphasize, overstress place special or excessive emphasis on blow, bluster, boast, brag, gas, gasconade, shoot a line, swash, tout, vauntshow off aggrandise, aggrandize, blow up, dramatise, dramatize, embellish, embroider, lard, padadd details to glorifycause to seem more splendid puffspeak in a blustering or scornful manner crow, gloat, triumphdwell on with satisfaction misinform, mislead give false or misleading information to |
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