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AMPLIFY

amplify

(verb) increase the volume of; “amplify sound”

inflate, blow up, expand, amplify

(verb) exaggerate or make bigger; “The charges were inflated”

magnify, amplify

(verb) increase in size, volume or significance; “Her terror was magnified in her mind”

overstate, exaggerate, overdraw, hyperbolize, hyperbolise, magnify, amplify

(verb) to enlarge beyond bounds or the truth; “tended to romanticize and exaggerate this ‘gracious Old South’ imagery”

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Verb

amplified

simple past tense and past participle of amplify

Adjective

amplified (comparative more amplified, superlative most amplified)

Having been made the subject of amplification; more potent or stronger, louder

Source: Wiktionary


AMPLIFY

Am"pli*fy, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Amplified; p. pr. & vb. n. Amplifying.] Etym: [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.)

Definition: 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.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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