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3 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: 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 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. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Amplify \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. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: 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}, {magnify}] [ant: {understate}] 3: exaggerate or make bigger; "The charges were inflated" [syn: {inflate}, {blow up}, {expand}] 4: increase the volume of "amplify sound"
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