magnify to make sth appear bigger than it is Half television , half microscope , Roberts's invention made it possible to magnify living tissues up to 25,000 times , against an ordinary miscroscope 's 5,000 times . Studying the cross reveals things about the galaxy doing the lensing : other lenses may reveal details about the objects they magnify . A young sea shell would thus generally appear , in most respects , identical to an adult of the same species if it were appropriately magnified . magnifiedmade to appear bigger Canon 's 10x30 IS binoculars use electronics and a special optical system to create steady , magnified images . Behind the glass as it filled was Luke 's magnified smile . The man was slight , with stooped shoulders , a pink face and thick spectacles that magnified his eyes , making the sockets look like deep pits in his skull . He was plastering wet threads of hair over a balding pate , and there was a look of alarm in those magnified eyes . X-rays hang on the wall , along with magnified shots of what appear to be biopsy samples , livid white , blood-red and nacreous blue . Obviously they weren't tree rings but I 'knew ' they were something ' scientific ' and basic like a magnified snowflake . to make sth seem more important than it is He lost sleep , his mind churning , piling up imaginary complaints and magnifying them . When you live alone it is very easy to magnify every little ache and pain into a life-threatening illness . She could not bear the claustrophobia of the place , which magnified the smallest incidents or most trivial remarks into giant horrors . to increase or enlarge sth Contrary to expectations this growth in the production of consumer goods merely postpones and then magnifies the problem . The concentration of 8 liters of Noni fruit into one ounce of fluid concentrate greatly magnifies the therapeutic effect . Simply that the normal earphone magnifies the radiation to your head 10 fold , which may or may not be harmful , whereas the new type reduces it to 0.magnified increased; made bigger Within the NAM the Arab states frequently act as a bloc , thereby ensuring a magnified backing for their positions .The Keynesian then considers the implications in terms of the income -- expenditure model of Chapter 10 , with any increase in investment bringing about a magnified increase in national income through the workings of the multiplier . There are always magnified problems on bad teams . Nor is this divinization gradual , a graph line which ascends as his reputation grows , as the things he did in his life take on magnified stature and interpretation . to glorify And Mary said , ` My soul doth magnify the Lord , and my spirit hath rejoiced in God my Saviour . magnifying glass hand-held optical device used to make things look bigger She was reading The Times with the aid of a magnifying glass . ` Too ,small ,' he commented . ` You'd need a magnifyingglass to make it out properly '. So you are going to play Sherlock Holmes and go around with a magnifying glass looking for footprints ?