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Amplify

Amplify Meaning & Definition
Amplify Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Amplify?

[v] increase the volume of; "amplify sound"
[v] exaggerate or make bigger; "The charges were inflated"
[v] increase in size, volume or significance; "Her terror was magnified in her mind."
[v] to enlarge beyond bounds or the truth; "tended to romanticize and exaggerate this ``gracious Old South'' imagery"

Synonyms | Synonyms for Amplify: blow up | exaggerate | expand | hyerbolise | hyperbolize | inflate | magnify | magnify | overdraw | overstate

Related Terms | Find terms related to Amplify: add to | agent provocateur | aggrandize | aggravate | annoy | augment | ballyhoo | bloat | blow up | boost | broaden | build | build up | bulk | bulk out | burlesque | caricature | carry too far | charge | complete | crescendo | deepen | descant | detail | deteriorate | develop | dilate | distend | draw the longbow | elaborate | electrify | embellish | embitter | embroider | energize | enhance | enlarge | enlarge upon | enter into detail | evolve | exacerbate | exaggerate | exalt | exasperate | expand | expatiate | explicate | extend | fatten | fill out | galvanize | generate | go into | go to extremes | heat up | heighten | hike | hike up | hot up | huff | hyperbolize | increase | inflate | intensify | irritate | jack up | jump up | labor | lay it on | lengthen | loop in | magnify | make acute | make much of | make worse | maximize | overcharge | overdo | overdraw | overestimate | overpraise | overreach | overreact | oversell | overspeak | overstate | overstress | parlay | particularize | pile it on | plug in | provoke | puff | puff up | pump | pump up | put up | pyramid | raise | rarefy | rehearse in extenso | relate at large | sharpen | shock | short | short-circuit | sour | spell out | step down | step up | stiffen | stretch | stretch the truth | sufflate | supplement | swell | switch off | switch on | talk big | talk in superlatives | thicken | tout | travesty | turn off | turn on | unfold | up | widen | work out | worsen

See Also | aggrandise | aggrandize | blow | blow up | bluster | boast | brag | compound | deepen | dramatise | dramatize | embellish | embroider | enlarge | gas | gasconade | heighten | increase | intensify | lard | misinform | mislead | overemphasise | overemphasize | overstress | pad | puff up | shoot a line | swash | tout | vaunt

Amplify In Webster's Dictionary

\Am"pli*fy\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Amplified}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Amplifying}.] [F. amplifier, L. amplificare. See {Ample}, {-fy}.] 1. To render larger, more extended, or more intense, and the like; -- used especially of telescopes, microscopes, etc. 2. (Rhet.) To enlarge by addition or discussion; to treat copiously by adding particulars, illustrations, etc.; to expand; to make much of. Troilus and Cressida was written by a Lombard author, but much amplified by our English translator. --Dryden.
\Am"pli*fy\, v. i. 1. To become larger. [Obs.] Strait was the way at first, withouten light, But further in did further amplify. --Fairfax. 2. To speak largely or copiously; to be diffuse in argument or description; to dilate; to expatiate; -- often with on or upon. --Watts. He must often enlarge and amplify upon the subject he handles. --South.

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