Definitions for amplify

Overview of verb amplify

The verb amplify has 4 senses? (first 1 from tagged texts)

1. (4) 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")