Word Meanings - AMPLIFY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To enlarge by addition or discussion; to treat copiously by adding particulars, illustrations, etc.; to expand; to make much of. Troilus and Cressida was written by a Lombard author, but much amplified by our English translator. Dryden. (more info)

Additional info about word: AMPLIFY

To enlarge by addition or discussion; to treat copiously by adding particulars, illustrations, etc.; to expand; to make much of. Troilus and Cressida was written by a Lombard author, but much amplified by our English translator. Dryden. (more info) 1. To render larger, more extended, or more intense, and the like; -- used especially of telescopes, microscopes, etc.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of AMPLIFY)

• Add
• Adduce
• adjoin
• increase
• extend
• enlarge
• sum up
• cast up
• subjoin
• amplify
• annex
• Descant
• Dissert
• discuss
• expatiate
• talk
• dwell
• Develop
• Educe
• enucleate
• eliminate
• enunciate
• lay open
• disclose
• unravel
• unfold
• clear
• expand
• Enlarge
• Amplify
• augment
• broaden
• swell
• stretch out
• stretch
• dilate
• Exaggerate
• heighten
• magnify
• overstate
• overdraw
• strain
• overpaint
• overestimate

Related words: (words related to AMPLIFY)

• ANNEX
  to; ad + nectere to tie, to fasten together, akin to Skr. nah to 1. To join or attach; usually to subjoin; to affix; to append; -- followed by to. "He annexed a codicil to a will." Johnson. 2. To join or add, as a smaller thing to a greater. He
• STRAINABLE
  1. Capable of being strained. 2. Violent in action. Holinshed.
• DISSERTATIONAL
  Relating to dissertations; resembling a dissertation.
• CLEARLY
  In a clear manner.
• ELIMINATE
  To cause to disappear from an equation; as, to eliminate an unknown quantity. 3. To set aside as unimportant in a process of inductive inquiry; to leave out of consideration. Eliminate errors that have been gathering and accumulating. Lowth. 4.
• DISSERTATE
  To deal in dissertation; to write dissertations; to discourse. J. Foster.
• CLEARER
  A tool of which the hemp for lines and twines, used by sailmakers, is finished. (more info) 1. One who, or that which, clears. Gold is a wonderful clearer of the understanding. Addison.
• ENLARGEMENT
  1. The act of increasing in size or bulk, real or apparent; the state of being increased; augmentation; further extension; expansion. 2. Expansion or extension, as of the powers of the mind; ennoblement, as of the feelings and character; as, an
• UNFOLDER
  One who, or that which, unfolds.
• STRAINING
  from Strain. Straining piece , a short piece of timber in a truss, used to maintain the ends of struts or rafters, and keep them from slipping. See Illust. of Queen-post.
• DEVELOPMENT
  The series of changes which animal and vegetable organisms undergo in their passage from the embryonic state to maturity, from a lower to a higher state of organization. The act or process of changing or expanding an expression into another
• ADDUCE
  To bring forward or offer, as an argument, passage, or consideration which bears on a statement or case; to cite; to allege. Reasons . . . were adduced on both sides. Macaulay. Enough could not be adduced to satisfy the purpose of illustration.
• EXTENDLESSNESS
  Unlimited extension. An . . . extendlessness of excursions. Sir. M. Hale.
• ANNEXATION
  1. The act of annexing; process of attaching, adding, or appending; the act of connecting; union; as, the annexation of Texas to the United States, or of chattels to the freehold. The union of property with a freehold so as to become a fixture.
• CLEAR-HEADED
  Having a clear understanding; quick of perception; intelligent. "He was laborious and clear-headed." Macaulay. -- Clear"-head`ed*ness, n.
• OVERPAINT
  To color or describe too strongly. Sir W. Raleigh.
• UNFOLDMENT
  The acct of unfolding, or the state of being unfolded. The extreme unfoldment of the instinctive powers. C. Morris.
• EXTENDANT
  Displaced. Ogilvie.
• SWELLTOAD
  A swellfish.
• CLEAR-SIGHTEDNESS
  Acute discernment.
• DENUNCIATE
  To denounce; to condemn publicly or solemnly. To denunciate this new work. Burke.
• REINCREASE
  To increase again.
• INDWELLING
  Residence within, as in the heart. The personal indwelling of the Spirit in believers. South.
• SADDUCEEISM; SADDUCISM
  The tenets of the Sadducees.
• RESTRAINABLE
  Capable of being restrained; controllable. Sir T. Browne.
• SEDUCEMENT
  1. The act of seducing. 2. The means employed to seduce, as flattery, promises, deception, etc.; arts of enticing or corrupting. Pope.
• REDUCEMENT
  Reduction. Milton.
• UPSWELL
  To swell or rise up.
• DISTRAINER
  See DISTRAINOR
• HALF-STRAINED
  Half-bred; imperfect. "A half-strained villain." Dryden.
• POLYNUCLEAR
  Containing many nuclei.
• SEDUCER
  One who, or that which, seduces; specifically, one who prevails over the chastity of a woman by enticements and persuasions. He whose firm faith no reason could remove, Will melt before that soft seducer, love. Dryden.