overmagnify en · VERB
Etymology
From over- + magnify.
Meanings
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To magnify too much.
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.
2014, Stuart N. Soroka, Negativity in Democratic Politics: Causes and Consequences, page 74:
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| overmagnified | Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part | lexicographic | |
| overmagnified | Tense=Past | lexicographic | |
| overmagnifying | Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part | lexicographic | |
| overmagnifies | Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres | lexicographic |