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
I can appreciate, though, that through that lens I was magnifying tremendously those peculiar light-radiations that I have described.
From The Girl in the Golden Atom by Ray Cummings
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
There were moments when it became nakedly apparent that she was magnifying Magnet to belittle Trafford.
From Marriage by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells
A vague idea, startling and terrible, was magnifying itself in his mind.
From The Moon Rock by Arthur J. (Arthur John) Rees
