zoom in

phrasal 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

One video zoomed in on a student holding a screwdriver. —Rachel Wegner, Nashville Tennessean, 24 Sep. 2025

Long gone are the days of zooming in on a paparazzi photo to discover what your favorite star is reading. —Emily St. Martin, Oc Register, 24 Sep. 2025

New fire departments and other agencies sign up to be partners, and their officials are given access to pan and zoom in the cameras. —Paul Rogers, Boston Herald, 23 Sep. 2025

Countless users have commented on them, zoomed in on them, slowed them to a crawl, theorized about them or marked them up with arrows and diagrams and published the results. —Zeynep Tufekci, Mercury News, 16 Sep. 2025

Rhymes for zoom in

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