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Synonyms for amplify

Verb

1. magnify, amplify, enlarge
usage: increase in size, volume or significance; "Her terror was magnified in her mind"
2. overstate, exaggerate, overdraw, hyperbolize, hyerbolise, magnify, amplify, misinform, mislead
usage: to enlarge beyond bounds or the truth; "tended to romanticize and exaggerate this `gracious Old South' imagery"
3. inflate, blow up, expand, amplify, increase
usage: exaggerate or make bigger; "The charges were inflated"
4. amplify, intensify, compound, heighten, deepen
usage: increase the volume of; "amplify sound"
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