Verb: amplify 'amp-lu,fI
- Increase in size, volume or significance
"Her terror was amplified in her mind";
- magnify
- Increase the volume of
"amplify sound";
- amp [informal]
- Exaggerate or deliberately make something appear more important or serious than it really is
"Social media amplified the baseless rumours";
- inflate, blow up, expand
- Describe or represent something in a way that makes it seem larger, better or more important than it actually is
"The speaker amplified the importance of the discovery";
- overstate, exaggerate, overdraw, hyperbolize, hyperbolise [Brit], magnify
Derived forms: amplified, amplifies, amplifying
Type of: compound, deepen, disinform, enlarge, heighten, increase, intensify, misinform, mislead
Antonym: downplay
Encyclopedia: Amplify