Amplify meaning

What does “amplify” mean? Definitions, examples, synonyms and opposites.

“amplify” is a verb with 4 meanings. Its most common meaning is: increase in size, volume or significance.

amplify

increase in size, volume or significance
“Her terror was magnified in her mind”
Synonymsmagnify
to enlarge beyond bounds or the truth
“tended to romanticize and exaggerate this `gracious Old South' imagery”
Synonymsoverstate exaggerate overdraw hyperbolize hyperbolise magnify
exaggerate or make bigger
“The charges were inflated”
Synonymsinflate blow up expand
increase the volume of
“amplify sound”

Source: WordNet 3.1, Princeton University