magnify

Verbs

(v) increase in size, volume or significance
- Her terror was magnified in her mind
amplify,
(v) to enlarge beyond bounds or the truth
- tended to romanticize and exaggerate this "gracious Old South" imagery
exaggerate, hyperbolise, hyperbolize, overstate, amplify, overdraw,
(v) make large
- blow up an image
blow up, enlarge,

Synonyms

amplify exaggerate hyperbolise hyperbolize overstate overdraw blow up enlarge

Antonyms

downplay minimise understate minimize scale down reduce

Words of close approximity

magnifying glass