amplify
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< Middle English amplifyen < Old French amplifier < Latin amplificare (“‘to enlarge’”) < amplus (“‘large’”) + facere (“‘to make’”). See ample.
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to amplify (third-person singular simple present amplifies, present participle amplifying, simple past and past participle amplified)
- (transitive) To render larger, more extended, or more intense, and the like;—used especially of loudspeakers, telescopes, microscopes, etc.
- (transitive, rhetorical) To enlarge by addition or discussion; to treat copiously by adding particulars, illustrations, etc.; to expand; to make much of.
- (transitive) To increase the amplitude of something, especially of an electric current.
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to render larger etc.
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to enlarge rhetorically
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[edit] External links
- amplify in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
- amplify in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911
