magnify

Verb

• make large
  • blow up an image
    

• to enlarge beyond bounds or the truth
  • tended to romanticize and exaggerate this `gracious Old South' imagery
    

• increase in size, volume or significance
  • Her terror was magnified in her mind
    

Related words

• Synonyms: 
  blow up , enlarge , overstate , exaggerate , overdraw , hyperbolize , hyperbolise , amplify
• Antonyms: 
  reduce , scale down , understate , minimize , minimise , downplay