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Verb amplify has 4 senses
- magnify, amplify - increase in size, volume or significance; "Her terror was magnified in her mind"
--1 is one way to enlarge
Sample sentences:
Something ----s
Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something
- overstate, exaggerate, overdraw, hyperbolize, hyerbolise, magnify, amplify - to enlarge beyond bounds or the truth; "tended to romanticize and exaggerate this `gracious Old South' imagery"
--2 is one way to misinform, mislead
Sample sentence:
Somebody ----s something
- inflate, blow up, expand, amplify - exaggerate or make bigger; "The charges were inflated"
--3 is one way to increase
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something
- amplify - increase the volume of; "amplify sound"
--4 is one way to intensify, compound, heighten, deepen
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something
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