"amplify" in the verb sense
1. magnify, amplify
increase in size, volume or significance
"Her terror was magnified in her mind"
2. overstate, exaggerate, overdraw, hyperbolize, hyperbolise, magnify, amplify
to enlarge beyond bounds or the truth
"tended to romanticize and exaggerate this `gracious Old South' imagery"
3. inflate, blow up, expand, amplify
exaggerate or make bigger
"The charges were inflated"
4. amplify
increase the volume of
"amplify sound"
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