overmagnify

English

Etymology

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.