amplify

1. 1.

   increase in size, volume or significance

   “Her terror was magnified in her mind”

   Synonymsmagnify

   Broaderenlarge
2. 2.

   to enlarge beyond bounds or the truth

   “tended to romanticize and exaggerate this `gracious Old South' imagery”

   Synonymsoverstateexaggerateoverdrawhyperbolizehyperbolisemagnify

   Broadermisinform

   Narroweroveremphasizeboastembroider
3. 3.

   exaggerate or make bigger

   “The charges were inflated”

   Synonymsinflateblow upexpand

   Broaderincrease

   Narrowerpuff up
4. 4.

   increase the volume of

   “amplify sound”

   Broaderintensify

Other forms of amplify

past tense or participle

amplified

present participle

amplifying·

third person

amplifies·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about amplify

What does amplify mean?

amplify means "increase in size, volume or significance". That is the primary sense; the word has 4 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in amplify?

amplify has 3 syllables: am-pli-fy. The stress falls on "am". In IPA it is /ˈæmpləˌfaɪ/.

What is another word for amplify?

Close synonyms include magnify, overstate, exaggerate, overdraw, hyperbolize. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is amplify a common word?

amplify is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with amplify?

72 words rhyme with amplify. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.