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MAGNIFIED
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Enlarged to an abnormal degree
Example:
thick lenses exaggerated the size of her eyes
Synonyms:
enlarged; exaggerated; magnified
Classified under:
Similar:
increased (made greater in size or amount or degree)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
Past simple / past participle of the verb magnify
Context examples:
The Ladies Lynn and Ingram continued to consort in solemn conferences, where they nodded their two turbans at each other, and held up their four hands in confronting gestures of surprise, or mystery, or horror, according to the theme on which their gossip ran, like a pair of magnified puppets.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
It was a dislike so little just—every imputed fault was so magnified by fancy, that she never saw Jane Fairfax the first time after any considerable absence, without feeling that she had injured her; and now, when the due visit was paid, on her arrival, after a two years' interval, she was particularly struck with the very appearance and manners, which for those two whole years she had been depreciating.
(Emma, by Jane Austen)
In the center of the image is the immense galaxy cluster Abell S1063, located 4 billion light-years away, and surrounded by magnified images of galaxies much farther.
(NASA’s Hubble Looks to the Final Frontier, NASA)
The team had been using Hubble to monitor a supernova in the far-distant spiral galaxy when, in 2016, they spotted a new point of light not far from the magnified supernova.
(Hubble Uncovers the Farthest Star Ever Seen, NASA)
Samples were magnified by the built-in lens of the cell phone camera along with an external lens.
(Smartphone microscope detects nanoparticles and viruses, NIH)
From the position of the new source, they inferred that it should be much more highly magnified than the supernova.
(Hubble Uncovers the Farthest Star Ever Seen, NASA)
