zoom in

verb

zoomed in; zooming in; zooms in

: (of a person) to adjust the lens of a camera or (of a camera) to adjust its lens so that the image seems to be bigger and closer

—often + on

I zoomed in on her face to show her reaction.

The TV cameras zoomed in on the winner's face.

—often used figuratively

We're trying to zoom in on the cause of these problems before they get worse.

Examples of zoom in in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

Google Earth was for zooming in and out. —Gideon Lewis-Kraus, New Yorker, 15 Apr. 2026

The phone zooms in to show the details of the shoe, of the jawbone missing a tooth. —ABC News, 14 Apr. 2026

The comic spent some minutes zooming in on and squinting at the photo, putting his hand on his head to ascertain the resemblance. —Natalie Oganesyan, Deadline, 13 Apr. 2026

By zooming in on the real-time distress of the Palestinians trying to save one child, the film patently demonstrates the costs of stymied aid to Gaza and the violence institutions can enact through bureaucracies. —Literary Hub, 8 Apr. 2026

Rhymes for zoom in

• crewman
• crewmen
• cumin
• human
• lumen
• numen
• rumen
• suman
• acumen
• albumen
• albumin
• bitumen