"amplify" | Definition and Related Words

Verb

Increase in size, volume or significance (synset 200435030)
"Her terror was magnified in her mind"

is a type of: enlarge - become larger or bigger

same as: magnify
To enlarge beyond bounds or the truth (synset 200841513)
"tended to romanticize and exaggerate this `gracious Old South' imagery"

is a type of: misinform, mislead - give false or misleading information to
subtypes:
- overemphasise, overemphasize, overstress - place special or excessive emphasis on
- blow, bluster, boast, brag, gas, gasconade, shoot a line, swash, tout, vaunt - show off
- aggrandise, aggrandize, blow up, dramatise, dramatize, embellish, embroider, lard, pad - add details to
same as: exaggerate, hyperbolise, hyperbolize, magnify, overdraw, overstate
Exaggerate or make bigger (synset 200265272)
"The charges were inflated"

is a type of: increase - make bigger or more

subtypes: puff up - make larger or distend

same as: blow up, expand, inflate
Increase the volume of (synset 200264790)
"amplify sound"

is a type of: compound, deepen, heighten, intensify - make more intense, stronger, or more marked