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Meaning of amplify

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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:

  amplify
      v 1: increase in size, volume or significance; "Her terror was
           magnified in her mind" [syn: {magnify}, {amplify}]
      2: to enlarge beyond bounds or the truth; "tended to romanticize
         and exaggerate this `gracious Old South' imagery" [syn:
         {overstate}, {exaggerate}, {overdraw}, {hyperbolize},
         {hyperbolise}, {magnify}, {amplify}] [ant: {downplay},
         {minimise}, {minimize}, {understate}]
      3: exaggerate or make bigger; "The charges were inflated" [syn:
         {inflate}, {blow up}, {expand}, {amplify}]
      4: increase the volume of; "amplify sound"

Source : WordNet ® Princeton University. 2010.

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