overmagnify

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English

Etymology

From over- +‎ magnify.

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.