magnify
verb (used with object)
to increase the apparent size of, as a lens does.
was magnifying
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past progressiveof magnify.past progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or continuous state that was happening at a specific time in the past.
Example Sentences
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Last month, musician Neil Young removed his music over concerns that Rogan was magnifying vaccine skepticism.
From Fox News ● Feb. 15, 2022
Those who knew Tavia would scarcely have recognized her now, could they have viewed her through the glass with which she was magnifying her faults.
From Dorothy Dale's Camping Days by Margaret Penrose
Evidently I was magnifying the grip that Spoof was gaining upon her.
From Neighbours by Robert J. C. Stead
It struck him as rather queer that master and servant had not come out together, but then he 187 told himself that the circumstance was probably meaningless and that his imagination was magnifying trifles.
From The Gray Phantom's Return by Herman Landon
He was magnifying the unfathomed peril that existed in his erratic, hair-trigger old brain alone merely for the sake of the complacent pride which resulted therefrom––pride in the contemplation of his own intrepid dare-deviltry.
From Once to Every Man by Anton Otto Fischer
