1. (verb)magnify, amplify increase in size, volume or significance "Her terror was magnified in her mind"
2. (verb)overstate, exaggerate, overdraw, hyperbolize, hyperbolise, magnify, amplify to enlarge beyond bounds or the truth "tended to romanticize and exaggerate this `gracious Old South' imagery"
3. (verb)blow up, enlarge, magnify makelarge "blow up an image"