amplify
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(verb) increase the volume of; "amplify sound" |
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Related Words: compound, deepen, heighten, intensify |
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(verb) increase in size, volume or significance: "Her terror was magnified in her mind." |
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Synonyms: magnify |
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Related Words: enlarge |
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(verb) exaggerate or make bigger; "The charges were inflated" |
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Synonyms: blow up, expand, inflate |
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Related Words: increase, puff up |
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(verb) to enlarge beyond bounds or the truth: " tended to romanticize and exaggerate this ``gracious Old_South'' imagery." |
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Synonyms: exaggerate, hyperbolize, magnify, overdraw, overstate |
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Related Words: aggrandize, blow, blow up, bluster, boast, brag, dramatise, dramatize, embellish, embroider, emphasise, gas, gasconade, lard, misinform, mislead, overemphasize, overstress, pad, shoot a line, swash, tout, vaunt |
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