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Amplify [Verb intransitive] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. To speak largely or copiously; to be diffuse in argument or description; to dilate upon; often followed by on; as, to amplify on the several topics of discourse.

2. To exaggerate; to enlarge by representation or description; as,

3. Homer amplifies - not invents.

Amplify [Verb transitive] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. To enlarge; to augment; to increase or extend, in a general sense; applied to material or immaterial things.

2. In rhetoric, to enlarge in discussion or by representation; to treat copiously, so as to present the subject in every view and in the strongest lights.

3. To enlarge by addition; to improve or extend; as, to amplify the sense of an author by a paraphrase.

Amplify [Verb intransitive] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. To become larger.

2. To speak largely or copiously; to be diffuse in argument or description; to dilate; to expatiate; -- often with on or upon.

Amplify [Verb transitive] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. To render larger, more extended, or more intense, and the like; -- used especially of telescopes, microscopes, etc.

2. To enlarge by addition or discussion; to treat copiously by adding particulars, illustrations, etc.; to expand; to make much of.

Amplifying [Participle present tense] Webster's Dictionary 1828

Enlarging; exaggerating; diffusively treating.

Amplifying [Present participle and verbal noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

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