Verb

To praise, glorify (someone or something, especially god).

* 1526 , (William Tyndale), trans. Bible , Acts X:

For they herde them speake with tonges, and magnify God.

* 1644 , (John Milton), (Aeropagitica) :

For he who freely magnifies what hath been nobly done, and fears not to declare as freely what might be done better, gives ye the best cov'nant of his fidelity [...].

To make (something) larger or more important.

* Grew

The least error in a small quantitybe proportionately magnified .

* {{quote-book, year=2006, author=(Edwin Black), title=Internal Combustion

, chapter=2 citation , passage=But through the oligopoly, charcoal fuel proliferated throughout London's trades and industries. By the 1200s, brewers and bakers, tilemakers, glassblowers, pottery producers, and a range of other craftsmen all became hour-to-hour consumers of charcoal. This only magnified the indispensable nature of the oligopolists.}}

To make (someone or something) appear greater or more important than it is; to intensify, exaggerate.

To make (something) appear larger by means of a lens, magnifying glass, telescope etc.

* {{quote-magazine, year=2013, month=July-August, author= Catherine Clabby

, magazine=(American Scientist), title= Focus on Everything , passage=Not long ago, it was difficult to produce photographs of tiny creatures with every part in focus. That’s because the lenses that are excellent at magnifying tiny subjects produce a narrow depth of field. A photo processing technique called focus stacking has changed that.}}

(intransitive, slang, obsolete) To have effect; to be of importance or significance.

(Spectator)

Verb

(en verb)

To become fatter

He gradually fattened in the five years after getting married.

To cause to be fatter

We must fatten the turkey in time for Thanksgiving.

To make fertile and fruitful; to enrich.

to fatten land

(Dryden)