Amplify \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.
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2. (Rhet.) To enlarge by addition or discussion; to treat
copiously by adding particulars, illustrations, etc.; to
expand; to make much of.
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Troilus and Cressida was written by a Lombard
author, but much amplified by our English
translator. --Dryden.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
amplify
v 1: increase in size, volume or significance; "Her terror was
magnified in her mind" [syn: magnify]
2: to enlarge beyond bounds or the truth; "tended to
romanticize and exaggerate this `gracious Old South'
imagery" [syn: overstate, exaggerate, overdraw, hyperbolize,
hyerbolise, magnify] [ant: understate]
3: exaggerate or make bigger; "The charges were inflated" [syn:
inflate, blow up, expand]
4: increase the volume of; "amplify sound"
[also: amplified]
WordNet (r) 2.0
amplified
See amplify
WordNet (r) 2.0
76 Moby Thesaurus words for "amplified":
accelerated, aggrandized, aggravated, ampliate, annoyed, augmented,
ballyhooed, beefed-up, bloated, boosted, broadened, built-up,
crescendoed, deepened, deliberately provoked, disproportionate,
elevated, embittered, enhanced, enlarged, exacerbated, exaggerated,
exasperated, excessive, exorbitant, expanded, extended,
extravagant, extreme, grandiloquent, heated up, heightened,
high-flown, hiked, hotted up, hyperbolic, increased, inflated,
inordinate, intensified, irritated, jazzed up, magnified,
multiplied, overdone, overdrawn, overemphasized, overemphatic,
overestimated, overgreat, overlarge, overpraised, oversold,
overstated, overstressed, overwrought, prodigal, profuse,
proliferated, provoked, puffed, raised, reinforced, soured, spread,
stiffened, strengthened, stretched, superlative, swollen,
tightened, touted, upped, widened, worse, worsened
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
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