What is the meaning of amplify?

Increase in size, volume or significance.
- usage: "Her terror was magnified in her mind"
- synonyms: magnify
To enlarge beyond bounds or the truth.
- usage: "tended to romanticize and exaggerate this `gracious Old South' imagery"
- synonyms: overstate, exaggerate, overdraw, hyperbolize, hyperbolise, magnify
Exaggerate or make bigger.
- usage: "The charges were inflated"
- synonyms: inflate, blow up, expand
Increase the volume of.
- usage: "amplify sound"

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