Definify.com

Webster 1913 Edition


Overmagnify

Oˊver-mag′ni-fy

,
Verb.
T.
To magnify too much.
Bp. Hall.

Definition 2024


overmagnify

overmagnify

English

Verb

overmagnify (third-person singular simple present overmagnifies, present participle overmagnifying, simple past and past participle overmagnified)

  1. To magnify too much.
    • 2014, Stuart N. Soroka, Negativity in Democratic Politics: Causes and Consequences (page 74)
      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.