Dictionary Entry
amplify
amplify is a 7-letter English word with 8 senses as transitive verb, intransitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: To render larger, more extended, or more intense, and the like; -- used especially of telescopes, microscopes, etc. Face value is 17 in Scrabble and 19 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
7 letters · Scrabble 17 · Words With Friends 19 · 8 senses
Definitions
- 1transitive verb
To render larger, more extended, or more intense, and the like; -- used especially of telescopes, microscopes, etc.
- 2transitive verb
To enlarge by addition or discussion; to treat copiously by adding particulars, illustrations, etc.; to expand; to make much of.
- 3intransitive verb
To become larger.
- 4intransitive verb
To speak largely or copiously; to be diffuse in argument or description; to dilate; to expatiate; -- often with on or upon.
- 5verb
increase the volume of
"amplify sound"
- 6verb
exaggerate or make bigger
"The charges were inflated"
- 7verb
increase in size, volume or significance
"Her terror was magnified in her mind"
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- 8verb
to enlarge beyond bounds or the truth
"tended to romanticize and exaggerate this `gracious Old South' imagery"
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