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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.

overmagnify en · VERB

Etymology

From over- + magnify.

Meanings

  1. 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

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overmagnified Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
overmagnified Tense=Past lexicographic
overmagnifying Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
overmagnifies Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres lexicographic