· increase in size, volume or significance; "Her terror was magnified in her mind"
Synonym(s): magnify
Hypernym(s): enlarge
· to enlarge beyond bounds or the truth; "tended to romanticize and exaggerate this `gracious Old South' imagery"
Synonym(s): overstate, exaggerate, overdraw, hyperbolize, hyperbolise, magnify
Hypernym(s): misinform, mislead
· exaggerate or make bigger; "The charges were inflated"
Synonym(s): inflate, blow_up, expand
Hypernym(s): increase
· increase the volume of; "amplify sound"
Hypernym(s): intensify, compound, heighten, deepen