'amplifies'Overview of verb amplify1. magnify, amplify -- (increase in size, volume or significance; "Her terror was magnified in her mind") 2. overstate, exaggerate, overdraw, hyperbolize, hyperbolise, magnify, amplify -- (to enlarge beyond bounds or the truth; "tended to romanticize and exaggerate this `gracious Old South' imagery") 3. inflate, blow up, expand, amplify -- (exaggerate or make bigger; "The charges were inflated") 4. amplify -- (increase the volume of; "amplify sound") Made possible by Princeton University "About WordNet." WordNet. Princeton University. 2010. http://wordnet.princeton.edu |