Magnify

Quick meaning: Magnify is a verb meaning (transitive) To praise, glorify (someone or something, especially God).

Meaning

(transitive) To praise, glorify (someone or something, especially God).

More Meanings

1. (transitive) To make (something) larger or more important.
2. (transitive) To make (someone or something) appear greater or more important than it is; to intensify, exaggerate.
3. (transitive) To make (something) appear larger by means of a lens, magnifying glass, telescope etc.
4. (intransitive, slang, obsolete) To have effect; to be of importance or significance.

Example Sentences

For they herde them speake with tonges, and magnify God.

My Governess […] told him I was continually eating some Trash or other. […] But this magnified but little with my Father.

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.

Word Forms

• magnifies
• magnifying
• magnified
• magnifie

Synonyms for magnify

Depending on context, synonyms include exalt, extol, laud, aggrandize, applaud, enthrone.

Antonyms for magnify

Common opposites include reduce, minimize, understate, scale down.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include hyperbolize, exaggerate, overstate, overdraw, amplify, enlarge.

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