magnify
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English magnifien, from Middle French magnifier, from Latin magnificāre, from magnificus.
Inflected forms:
form: magnifies
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: magnifying
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: magnified
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: magnified
pos: verb
tags: past
form: magnifie
pos: verb
tags: alternative
obsolete
Senses:
gloss: To praise, glorify (someone or something, especially God).
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: For they herde them speake with tonges, and magnify God.
For he who freely magnifies what hath been nobly done, and fears not to declare as freely what might be done better, gives ye the best cov'nant of his fidelity […]
Having already described him [the whale] in most of his present habitatory and anatomical peculiarities, it now remains to magnify him in an archæological, fossiliferous, and antediluvian point of view.
gloss: To make (something) larger or more important.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: But through the oligopoly, charcoal fuel proliferated throughout London's trades and industries. By the 1200s, brewers and bakers, tilemakers, glassblowers, pottery producers, and a range of other craftsmen all became hour-to-hour consumers of charcoal. This only magnified the indispensable nature of the oligopolists.
gloss: To make (someone or something) appear greater or more important than it is; to intensify, exaggerate.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To make (something) appear larger by means of a lens, magnifying glass, telescope etc.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Not long ago, it was difficult to produce photographs of tiny creatures with every part in focus. That’s because the lenses that are excellent at magnifying tiny subjects produce a narrow depth of field. A photo processing technique called focus stacking has changed that.
gloss: To have effect; to be of importance or significance.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
obsolete
slang
examples: My Governess […] told him I was continually eating some Trash or other. […] But this magnified but little with my Father.
Related words: minify
Derived words: biomagnify
demagnify
magnifiable
magnification
magnifier
magnifying glass
overmagnify
remagnify
unmagnify
Translations:
lang: Bulgarian
word: увеличавам
roman: uveličavam
lang: Czech
word: zvětšit
lang: Dutch
word: vergroten
lang: Finnish
word: suurentaa
lang: French
word: agrandir
lang: Galician
word: magnificar
lang: Georgian
word: გადიდება
roman: gadideba
lang: German
word: vergrößern
lang: Gothic
word: 𐌼𐌹𐌺𐌹𐌻𐌾𐌰𐌽
roman: mikiljan
lang: Greek
word: μεγεθύνω
roman: megethýno
lang: Ancient Greek
word: μεγαλύνω
roman: megalúnō
lang: Hungarian
word: nagyít
lang: Hungarian
word: kinagyít
lang: Hungarian
word: felnagyít
lang: Ido
word: grandigar
lang: Interlingua
word: aggrandir
lang: Italian
word: ingrandire
lang: Italian
word: amplificare
lang: Italian
word: ingigantire
lang: Japanese
word: 拡大する
roman: kakudai suru
lang: Japanese
word: 大きくする
roman: ōkiku suru
lang: Japanese
word: 広げる
roman: hirogeru
lang: Northern Kurdish
word: vepejilandin
lang: Macedonian
word: увеличува
roman: uveličuva
lang: Macedonian
word: зголемува
roman: zgolemuva
lang: Norwegian
word: forstørre
lang: Oromo
word: guddisuu
lang: Persian
word: بزرگ نمودن
roman: bozorg nemudan
lang: Polish
word: powiększać
lang: Portuguese
word: magnificar
lang: Portuguese
word: ampliar
lang: Romanian
word: mări
lang: Russian
word: увели́чивать
roman: uvelíčivatʹ
lang: Russian
word: увели́чить
roman: uvelíčitʹ
lang: Slovene
word: približati
lang: Slovene
word: povečati
lang: Spanish
word: magnificar
lang: Swedish
word: förstora
lang: Ukrainian
word: збі́льшувати
roman: zbílʹšuvaty
lang: Ukrainian
word: збі́льшити
roman: zbílʹšyty