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overmagnify

overmagnify verb: to magnify too much.

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

Forms of overmagnify

third-person singular presentovermagnifies
present participleovermagnifying
past participleovermagnified
pastovermagnified

Origin of overmagnify

From over- + magnify.

Questions about overmagnify

What does overmagnify mean?
Overmagnify means to magnify too much.
What part of speech is overmagnify?
Overmagnify is a verb.
What is the past tense of overmagnify?
The past tense of overmagnify is overmagnified.

Words near overmagnify in the dictionary

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

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