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

1. transitive verb. To render larger, more extended, or more intense, and the like; -- used especially of telescopes, microscopes, etc.
2. transitive verb. To enlarge by addition or discussion; to treat copiously by adding particulars, illustrations, etc.; to expand; to make much of.
3. intransitive verb. To become larger.
4. intransitive verb. To speak largely or copiously; to be diffuse in argument or description; to dilate; to expatiate; -- often with on or upon.
5. verb. increase the volume of

   "amplify sound"

6. verb. exaggerate or make bigger

   "The charges were inflated"

   Synonyms: expand, inflate

7. verb. increase in size, volume or significance

   "Her terror was magnified in her mind"

   Synonyms: magnify

8. verb. to enlarge beyond bounds or the truth

   "tended to romanticize and exaggerate this `gracious Old South' imagery"

   Synonyms: exaggerate, hyperbolise, hyperbolize, magnify, overdraw, overstate

Synonyms

expand, inflate, magnify, exaggerate, hyperbolise, hyperbolize, overdraw, overstate

Common word forms

amplified, amplifier, amplifies, amplifying

Words from these letters

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