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111magnify — verb 1) the lens magnifies the image Syn: enlarge, boost, enhance, maximize, increase, augment, extend, expand, amplify, intensify; informal blow up Ant: reduce 2) they magnified the problem …
112overreact — verb before you overreact, let s just calmly discuss this Syn: react disproportionately, act irrationally, lose one s sense of proportion, blow something up out of all proportion, make a mountain out of a molehill …
113pile it on — informal if you pile it on like that, no one will believe you Syn: exaggerate, overstate the case, make a mountain out of a molehill, overdo it, overplay it, overdramatize; informal lay it on thick …
114emphasize — v 1. stress, lay stress or emphasis on, give emphasis to, punctuate, accent; underline, underscore, point up, italicize, call attention to, mark, bring home, press home; feature, highlight, spotlight, play up, give prominence to, bring to the… …
115exaggerate — v 1. overstate, overdo, make much of, overstress, overcharge, overcolor, make a mountain out of a molehill, make much ado about nothing; hyperbolize, overdraw; romance, embroider, stretch, stretch the point, strain; color, paint, paint in glowing …
116fuss — n 1. fluster, flurry, dither, twitter, fret, bother, pother, Inf. stew, Inf. tizzy, Archaic. pucker; commotion, agitation, disquiet, unrest, stir, much ado about nothing, tempest in a teapot, Inf. foofaraw, Inf. to do, Sl. flap, Sl. hoo ha. 2.… …
117magnify — v 1. increase, enlarge, expand, aggrandize, greaten, amplify; augment, add to, build up; widen, broaden, distend, develop. 2. exaggerate, hyperbolize, overstate, overemphasize; color, embroider, enlarge upon; overreact, blow up, blow out of… …
118make — v 1. fabricate, manufacture, produce, mint; construct, build, assemble, set up; erect, elevate, raise, rear, put up; mold, form, fashion, model, shape, frame; create, invent, originate, devise, contrive, compose, write, put together; cast, block …
119overact — v Theat. Sl. ham or ham up; affect, put on, counterfeit, sham, make a show of; overdo, overstress, overcharge, overcolor, overstate, make a mountain out of a molehill, make much ado about nothing, make much of; color, paint, paint in glowing… …
120overcharge — v 1. charge too much, Sl. soak, Sl. sting, cheat, Inf. gyp, rook, short change, Sl. rip off; Sl. take, take advantage of, Inf. diddle, Inf. do, Sl. burn. 2. overload, overlade, fill too full, fill to the brim or gills, fill to overflowing,… …
