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magnified

/ˈmæɡnɪfaɪd/ adjective B2
  1. Having been visually enlarged by the process of magnification. · The image was magnified by a factor of eight.
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ROAMING BY the mountainside at sundown, a Wolf saw his own shadow become greatly extended and magnified, and he said to himself, “Why should I, being of such an immense size and extending nearly an acre in length, be afraid of the Lion?
Three Hundred Aesop's Fables, p. 84 · B2
We have our clothes, some more splendid than others,—this is our credit; but when a man dies he has only his skin; in the same way, on retiring from business, you have nothing but your real principal of about five or six millions, at the most; for third-rate fortunes are never more than a fourth of what they appear to be, like the locomotive on a railway, the size of which is magnified by the smoke and steam surrounding it.
The Count of Monte Cristo, p. 692 · C1
In children's books, where rhymes and meter are frequently essential to the reading experience, this difficulty is magnified significantly.
The Art of Compromise in Translation, p. 1 · C1

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