magnify
verb (used with object)
to increase the apparent size of, as a lens does.
had been magnifying
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past perfect progressiveof magnify.past perfect progressive
Used to describe an action that was ongoing continuously in the past up until another past event interrupted it.
Example Sentences
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As for that first disaster, which I had been magnifying into a life-tragedy, what of it?
From The Little Nugget by P. G. (Pelham Grenville) Wodehouse
