Word Meanings - AMPLIFY - Book Publishers vocabulary database
To enlarge by addition or discussion; to treat copiously by adding particulars, illustrations, etc.; to expand; to make much of. Troilus and Cressida was written by a Lombard author, but much amplified by our English translator. Dryden. (more info)
Additional info about word: AMPLIFY
To enlarge by addition or discussion; to treat copiously by adding particulars, illustrations, etc.; to expand; to make much of. Troilus and Cressida was written by a Lombard author, but much amplified by our English translator. Dryden. (more info) 1. To render larger, more extended, or more intense, and the like; -- used especially of telescopes, microscopes, etc.
Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of AMPLIFY)
- Add
- Adduce
- adjoin
- increase
- extend
- enlarge
- sum up
- cast up
- subjoin
- amplify
- annex
- Descant
- Dissert
- discuss
- expatiate
- talk
- dwell
- Develop
- Educe
- enucleate
- eliminate
- enunciate
- lay open
- disclose
- unravel
- unfold
- clear
- expand
- Enlarge
- Amplify
- augment
- broaden
- swell
- stretch out
- stretch
- dilate
- Exaggerate
- heighten
- magnify
- overstate
- overdraw
- strain
- overpaint
- overestimate
Related words: (words related to AMPLIFY)
- ANNEX
to; ad + nectere to tie, to fasten together, akin to Skr. nah to 1. To join or attach; usually to subjoin; to affix; to append; -- followed by to. "He annexed a codicil to a will." Johnson. 2. To join or add, as a smaller thing to a greater. He - STRAINABLE
1. Capable of being strained. 2. Violent in action. Holinshed. - DISSERTATIONAL
Relating to dissertations; resembling a dissertation. - CLEARLY
In a clear manner. - ELIMINATE
To cause to disappear from an equation; as, to eliminate an unknown quantity. 3. To set aside as unimportant in a process of inductive inquiry; to leave out of consideration. Eliminate errors that have been gathering and accumulating. Lowth. 4. - DISSERTATE
To deal in dissertation; to write dissertations; to discourse. J. Foster. - CLEARER
A tool of which the hemp for lines and twines, used by sailmakers, is finished. (more info) 1. One who, or that which, clears. Gold is a wonderful clearer of the understanding. Addison. - ENLARGEMENT
1. The act of increasing in size or bulk, real or apparent; the state of being increased; augmentation; further extension; expansion. 2. Expansion or extension, as of the powers of the mind; ennoblement, as of the feelings and character; as, an - UNFOLDER
One who, or that which, unfolds. - STRAINING
from Strain. Straining piece , a short piece of timber in a truss, used to maintain the ends of struts or rafters, and keep them from slipping. See Illust. of Queen-post. - DEVELOPMENT
The series of changes which animal and vegetable organisms undergo in their passage from the embryonic state to maturity, from a lower to a higher state of organization. The act or process of changing or expanding an expression into another - ADDUCE
To bring forward or offer, as an argument, passage, or consideration which bears on a statement or case; to cite; to allege. Reasons . . . were adduced on both sides. Macaulay. Enough could not be adduced to satisfy the purpose of illustration. - EXTENDLESSNESS
Unlimited extension. An . . . extendlessness of excursions. Sir. M. Hale. - ANNEXATION
1. The act of annexing; process of attaching, adding, or appending; the act of connecting; union; as, the annexation of Texas to the United States, or of chattels to the freehold. The union of property with a freehold so as to become a fixture. - CLEAR-HEADED
Having a clear understanding; quick of perception; intelligent. "He was laborious and clear-headed." Macaulay. -- Clear"-head`ed*ness, n. - OVERPAINT
To color or describe too strongly. Sir W. Raleigh. - UNFOLDMENT
The acct of unfolding, or the state of being unfolded. The extreme unfoldment of the instinctive powers. C. Morris. - EXTENDANT
Displaced. Ogilvie. - SWELLTOAD
A swellfish. - CLEAR-SIGHTEDNESS
Acute discernment. - DENUNCIATE
To denounce; to condemn publicly or solemnly. To denunciate this new work. Burke. - REINCREASE
To increase again. - INDWELLING
Residence within, as in the heart. The personal indwelling of the Spirit in believers. South. - SADDUCEEISM; SADDUCISM
The tenets of the Sadducees. - RESTRAINABLE
Capable of being restrained; controllable. Sir T. Browne. - SEDUCEMENT
1. The act of seducing. 2. The means employed to seduce, as flattery, promises, deception, etc.; arts of enticing or corrupting. Pope. - REDUCEMENT
Reduction. Milton. - UPSWELL
To swell or rise up. - DISTRAINER
See DISTRAINOR - HALF-STRAINED
Half-bred; imperfect. "A half-strained villain." Dryden. - POLYNUCLEAR
Containing many nuclei. - SEDUCER
One who, or that which, seduces; specifically, one who prevails over the chastity of a woman by enticements and persuasions. He whose firm faith no reason could remove, Will melt before that soft seducer, love. Dryden.