increase in size, volume or significance; Her terror was magnified in her mind

[ Syn: magnify ]

to enlarge beyond bounds or the truth; tended to romanticize and exaggerate this `gracious Old South imagery

[ Syn: overstate , exaggerate , overdraw , hyperbolize , hyperbolise , magnify ]

exaggerate or make bigger; The charges were inflated

[ Syn: inflate , blow up , expand ]

increase the volume of; amplify sound'