Antonyms for magnify
ˈmæg nəˌfaɪmag·ni·fy

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1. magnify

   Antonyms:
   abate, decline, decrease, diminish, ebb, lessen, lower, mitigate, moderate, reduce, subside

   Synonyms:
   aggravate, amplify, continue, develop, enhance, enlarge, extend, foment, increase, rage, raise, revive

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1. magnify

   Antonyms:
   diminish, contract, curtail, palliate, extenuate, decry

   Synonyms:
   enlarge, amplify, increase, augment, exaggerate, laud, extol

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Princeton's WordNetRate these antonyms:2.0 / 1 vote

1. magnify, amplifyverb

   increase in size, volume or significance

   "Her terror was magnified in her mind"

   Synonyms:
   exaggerate, blow up, amplify, hyperbolise, enlarge, overdraw, expand, hyperbolize, inflate, overstate

2. overstate, exaggerate, overdraw, hyperbolize, hyperbolise, magnify, amplifyverb

   to enlarge beyond bounds or the truth

   "tended to romanticize and exaggerate this `gracious Old South' imagery"

   Synonyms:
   exaggerate, blow up, amplify, hyperbolise, enlarge, overdraw, expand, overdo, hyperbolize, inflate, overstate

3. blow up, enlarge, magnifyverb

   make large

   "blow up an image"

   Synonyms:
   go ballistic, lucubrate, expatiate, puff out, exposit, detonate, have kittens, flip one's wig, embroider, puff up, expound, flesh out, puff, hit the roof, explode, throw a fit, combust, flip one's lid, expand, dilate, amplify, pad, embellish, lard, fly off the handle, set off, lose one's temper, overstate, blow a fuse, enlarge, hit the ceiling, blow up, exaggerate, aggrandise, have a fit, dramatise, elaborate, inflate, aggrandize, overdraw, hyperbolize, hyperbolise, dramatize, blow one's stack

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1. magnifyverb

   Synonyms:
   augment, amplify, enlarge, overstate, exaggerate

Editors ContributionRate these antonyms:5.0 / 1 vote

1. micrify

   verb (used with object): to make small or insignificant

   for further capacity expansion of magnetic tape storage media, it is necessary to micrify the particle size and increase the recording density.

   Submitted by JP03 on October 27, 2014  

How to use magnify in a sentence?

1. James Wood:

   People have to stand close to each other and shout to make themselves heard... you have people working long shifts close to each other, all those things magnify the risk of infection.

2. Utah Jazz:

   Connection and community have never been more important than it is today. Millions of people have been forced to leave behind their entire lives in Ukraine, the Utah Jazz Foundation is honored to partner with Airbnb.org to fund stays for refugees who have fled Ukraine – enough to fill every seat right here in our own house—Vivint Arena—nearly two times over. And we can’t stop there. I encourage every organization to support Airbnb.org’s important initiative, to magnify their impact and house enough refugees to fill their arenas or workplaces.

3. Hudson Henry:

   You do not want to be looking through the viewfinder at the sun with your eye, it is only going to magnify it into your eye.

4. Gavin Heffernan:

   The 25-30 second exposures reveal more stars and planets up above, they also magnify the lights on the ground, so even cities 100 miles away were blasting out our photos with floods of light.

5. Gretchen Whitmer:

   Right outside my office right now, people have come to town who are not wearing masks, they are not observing the six-foot distance, give me some advice. How can I magnify what you're seeing and what you're experiencing ?

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