Found 3 items, similar to amplify.
English → Indonesian (quick) Definition: amplify mengeraskan
English → English (WordNet) Definition: amplify amplify v 1: increase in size, volume or significance; “Her terror was magnified in her mind” [syn: magnify] 2: to enlarge beyond bounds or the truth; "tended to romanticize and exaggerate this `gracious Old South' imagery" [syn: overstate, exaggerate, overdraw, hyperbolize, hyerbolise, magnify] [ant: understate] 3: exaggerate or make bigger; “The charges were inflated” [syn: inflate, blow up, expand] 4: increase the volume of; “amplify sound” [also: amplified]
English → English (gcide) Definition: Amplify Amplify \Am"pli*fy\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Amplified; p. pr. & vb. n. Amplifying.] [F. amplifier, L. amplificare. See Ample, -fy.] 1. To render larger, more extended, or more intense, and the like; -- used especially of telescopes, microscopes, etc. [1913 Webster] 2. (Rhet.) To enlarge by addition or discussion; to treat copiously by adding particulars, illustrations, etc.; to expand; to make much of. [1913 Webster] Troilus and Cressida was written by a Lombard author, but much amplified by our English translator. --Dryden. [1913 Webster] Amplify \Am"pli*fy\, v. i. 1. To become larger. [Obs.] [1913 Webster] Strait was the way at first, withouten light, But further in did further amplify. --Fairfax. [1913 Webster] 2. To speak largely or copiously; to be diffuse in argument or description; to dilate; to expatiate; -- often with on or upon. --Watts. [1913 Webster] He must often enlarge and amplify upon the subject he handles. --South. [1913 Webster]