'amplify' definitions:
Definition of 'amplify'
(from WordNet)
verb
Increase in size, volume or significance; "Her terror was magnified in her mind" [syn: magnify, amplify]
verb
To enlarge beyond bounds or the truth; "tended to romanticize and exaggerate this `gracious Old South' imagery" [syn: overstate, exaggerate, overdraw, hyperbolize, hyperbolise, magnify, amplify] [ant: downplay, minimise, minimize, understate]
verb
verb
Increase the volume of; "amplify sound"
Synonyms of 'amplify'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- 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