Amplified

4 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  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.
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     2. (Rhet.) To enlarge by addition or discussion; to treat
        copiously by adding particulars, illustrations, etc.; to
        expand; to make much of.
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              Troilus and Cressida was written by a Lombard
              author, but much amplified by our English
              translator.                           --Dryden.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  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}]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  amplified
       See {amplify}

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  76 Moby Thesaurus words for "amplified":
     accelerated, aggrandized, aggravated, ampliate, annoyed, augmented,
     ballyhooed, beefed-up, bloated, boosted, broadened, built-up,
     crescendoed, deepened, deliberately provoked, disproportionate,
     elevated, embittered, enhanced, enlarged, exacerbated, exaggerated,
     exasperated, excessive, exorbitant, expanded, extended,
     extravagant, extreme, grandiloquent, heated up, heightened,
     high-flown, hiked, hotted up, hyperbolic, increased, inflated,
     inordinate, intensified, irritated, jazzed up, magnified,
     multiplied, overdone, overdrawn, overemphasized, overemphatic,
     overestimated, overgreat, overlarge, overpraised, oversold,
     overstated, overstressed, overwrought, prodigal, profuse,
     proliferated, provoked, puffed, raised, reinforced, soured, spread,
     stiffened, strengthened, stretched, superlative, swollen,
     tightened, touted, upped, widened, worse, worsened