amplify meaning and definition

AMPLIFY verb

Definition of amplify (verb)

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