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1. Increase in size, volume or significance
   "Her terror was amplified in her mind";
   - magnify
    
2. To enlarge beyond bounds or the truth
   "tended to romanticize and amplify this 'gracious Old South' imagery";
   - overstate, exaggerate, overdraw, hyperbolize, hyperbolise [Brit], magnify
    
3. Exaggerate or make bigger
   "The charges were amplified";
   - inflate, blow up, expand
    
4. Increase the volume of
   "amplify sound";
   - amp [informal]

Derived forms: amplifies, amplifying, amplified

Type of: compound, deepen, disinform, enlarge, heighten, increase, intensify, misinform, mislead

Antonym: downplay

Encyclopedia: Amplify