amplify

Words with a similar base: amplify

'amplify'

[magnify.v.01] as in: increase in size, volume or significance

Examples:
Her terror was magnified in her mind

'amplify'

[overstate.v.01] as in: to enlarge beyond bounds or the truth

Examples:
tended to romanticize and exaggerate this `gracious Old South' imagery

'amplify'

[inflate.v.01] as in: exaggerate or make bigger

Examples:
The charges were inflated

'amplify'

[amplify.v.04] as in: increase the volume of

Examples:
amplify sound

Origins

					amplify (English)
└── amplifyen (Middle English (1100-1500))
    └── amplifier (Old French (842-ca. 1400))
        └── amplificare (Latin)

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