amplify

amplify has 8 senses in the JumbleFix dictionary. Letters: 7.

Definitions

• v. t.. To render larger, more extended, or more intense, and the like; -- used especially of telescopes, microscopes, etc.
• v. t.. To enlarge by addition or discussion; to treat copiously by adding particulars, illustrations, etc.; to expand; to make much of.
• v. i.. To become larger.
• v. i.. To speak largely or copiously; to be diffuse in argument or description; to dilate; to expatiate; -- often with on or upon.
• v.. increase the volume of; "amplify sound"
• v.. exaggerate or make bigger; "The charges were inflated"
• v.. increase in size, volume or significance; "Her terror was magnified in her mind"
• v.. to enlarge beyond bounds or the truth; "tended to romanticize and exaggerate this `gracious Old South' imagery"