Verb

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