Associations to the word «Amplify»

Wiktionary

AMPLIFY, verb. (transitive) To render larger, more extended, or more intense, and the like;—used especially of loudspeakers, telescopes, microscopes, etc.
AMPLIFY, verb. (transitive) (rhetorical) To enlarge by addition or discussion; to treat copiously by adding particulars, illustrations, etc.; to expand; to make much of.
AMPLIFY, verb. (transitive) To increase the amplitude of something, especially of an electric current.

Dictionary definition

AMPLIFY, verb. Increase in size, volume or significance; "Her terror was magnified in her mind".
AMPLIFY, verb. To enlarge beyond bounds or the truth; "tended to romanticize and exaggerate this `gracious Old South' imagery".
AMPLIFY, verb. Exaggerate or make bigger; "The charges were inflated".
AMPLIFY, verb. Increase the volume of; "amplify sound".

Wise words

Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.
William Butler Yeats