0 past simple and past participle of magnify
1 to make something look larger than it is, especially by looking at it through a lens:
Except that here the silence is magnified by the context, to proportions which far exceed anything that might be conveyed within song alone.
The right column shows a magnified view of the measurements.
When blame, castigation, branding as deficient and dangerous, and exclusion from society's mainstream are added to the equation, the odds against rehabilitation are considerably magnified.
These are magnified in the course of development of the layer.
In the movie, a viewer perceives a magnified ecosystem and its inhabitants (a variety of insects in all stages of their lives).
In frozen soils, this influence seems to be magnified by the added presence of pore ice.
The axis cells are alive, except a part of the epidermis, which is magnified in the inset (cell walls highlighted).
Problems of boundary definition are significantly magnified in the highly trabeculated right ventricle.
