0 to make something look larger than it is, especially by looking at it through a lens: --
1 to make something look larger than it is, esp. by looking at it through a special piece of glass: --
The concern for air embolism is magnified in children for two reasons.
The difficulty is magnified when uncertainty in economic or political systems raises questions about the continued availability of resources into the future.
The seriousness of the problem is magnified by the frequent prevalence of repeats among all word occurrences.
The economic decline in this period is magnified if the increase in population is taken into account.
The problem is magnified once one realizes that pre-electoral coalitions have rarely been the focus of scholarly attention in these studies.
Also, any explanation of an increase associated with appreciably older husbands magnifies the differences found for women married to younger men.
Once again, the air's stability magnifies the impact of the preceding uncertainties of the recitative.
I can only imagine in this context how these effects would be magnified by nineteenth-century performance conditions, with the orchestra not in a lowered pit.
