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Amplify v. t. (past & past part. amplified; pres. part. amplifying)

To render larger, more extended, or more intense, and the like; used especially of telescopes, microscopes, etc.

(Rhet.) To enlarge by addition or discussion; to treat copiously by adding particulars, illustrations, etc.; to expand; to make much of. "Troilus and Cressida was written by a Lombard author, but much amplified by our English translator."

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Amplify" Quotes from Famous Books

... the scene closes with absolute suddenness; there is no attempt to describe, to amplify, to analyse. There follows the charge to Peter, the strange prophecy of his death, and the still stranger repression of curiosity as to what should be the ...

— The Thread of Gold • Arthur Christopher Benson

... have said I have said," he answered, "and I have said it in the hope that it might make some impression upon the lives of those to whom I spoke. You were one of them, Mr. Atterbury. And if I repeat and amplify my meaning now, it must be understood that I have no other object except that of putting you in the way of seeing that the religion of Christ is unique in that it is dependent upon no doctrine or dogma, upon no external or material sign or proof or authority whatever. I am utterly indifferent ...

— The Crossing • Winston Churchill

... poverty," said Media, "that he is opulent; for his very simplicity, is sometimes of more account than the wisdom of the sage. But we were discoursing of the Tapparians. Babbalanja: sententiously you have acquitted yourself to admiration; now amplify, and tell us more ...

— Mardi: and A Voyage Thither, Vol. II (of 2) • Herman Melville

Words linked to "Amplify" : overemphasise, blow, dramatise, hyperbolise, overemphasize, shoot a line, gas, swash, overdraw, lard, mislead, deepen, tout, intensify, bluster, heighten, understate, aggrandise, aggrandize, enlarge, hyperbolize, overstate, embellish, inflate, magnify, puff up, overstress, dramatize, expand