The Oxford Thesaurus An A-Z Dictionary of Synonyms - magnify v.

1) enlarge, expand, amplify, inflate, increase, augment, exaggerate, heighten, build up, boost, dramatize, aggravate, worsen, exacerbate; overstate, Colloq blow up, make a mountain out of a molehill: Tiny errors in the beginning are magnified later on. I fear that he has magnified its importance out of all proportion. 2) enlarge, blow up: They had to magnify the photograph to read the registration number of the stolen car.