Textual thesaurus for "amplify"

(verb) blow up, expand, inflate

exaggerate or make bigger

The charges were inflated

(verb) magnify

increase in size, volume or significance

Her terror was magnified in her mind

(verb) exaggerate, magnify, hyperbolise, hyperbolize, overdraw, overstate

to enlarge beyond bounds or the truth

tended to romanticize and exaggerate this `gracious Old South' imagery