overmagnify
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
23
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
4
Syllables
11
Unique Chars
Meaning
verb
To magnify too much.
Example Sentences
- "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."
Etymology
From over- + magnify.
Word Breakdown
- Prefix: over