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overmagnified

overmagnified is the simple past and past participle of overmagnify.

Meaning of overmagnify

Verb

overmagnify (third-person singular simple present overmagnifies, present participle overmagnifying, simple past and past participle overmagnified)

  1. To magnify too much.
    • Sabato's (1991) Feeding Frenzy similarly focuses on the post-Watergate tendency in American mass media to overmagnify certain events and to provide more cynical and contentious coverage of politics.2014, Stuart N. Soroka, Negativity in Democratic Politics: Causes and Consequences, page 74

Questions about overmagnified

What is overmagnified the simple past and past participle of?
Overmagnified is the simple past and past participle of overmagnify.

Words near overmagnified in the dictionary

  1. overly
  2. overlying
  3. overlyingly
  4. overmade
  5. overmagnification
  6. overmagnified
  7. overmagnifies
  8. overmagnify
  9. overmagnifying
  10. overmajorities
  11. overmajority

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