overmagnify

English

Etymology

Verb

overmagnify (third-person singular simple present overmagnifies, present participle overmagnifying, simple past and past participle overmagnified)

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.