Main entry: blow up, magnify, enlarge
Definition: make large
Usage: blow up an image
Definition: increase in size, volume or significance
Usage: Her terror was magnified in her mind
Main entry: exaggerate, amplify, magnify, hyperbolise, hyperbolize, overdraw, overstate
Definition: to enlarge beyond bounds or the truth
Usage: tended to romanticize and exaggerate this `gracious Old South' imagery