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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Amplify \Am"pli*fy\, verb (used with an object) [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.
2. (Rhet.) 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.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Amplify \Am"pli*fy\, verb (used without an object)
1. To become larger. [Obs.]
Strait was the way at first, withouten light, But further in did further amplify. --Fairfax.
2. To speak largely or copiously; to be diffuse in argument or description; to dilate; to expatiate; -- often with on or upon. --Watts.
He must often enlarge and amplify upon the subject he handles. --South.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
amplify
verb
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 Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
130 Moby Thesaurus words for "amplify": add to, agent provocateur, aggrandize, aggravate, annoy, augment, ballyhoo, bloat, blow up, boost, broaden, build, build up, bulk, bulk out, burlesque, caricature, carry too far, charge, complete, crescendo, deepen, descant, detail, deteriorate, develop, dilate, distend, draw the longbow, elaborate, electrify, embellish, embitter, embroider, energize, enhance, enlarge, enlarge upon, enter into detail, evolve, exacerbate, exaggerate, exalt, exasperate, expand, expatiate, explicate, extend, fatten, fill out, galvanize, generate, go into, go to extremes, heat up, heighten, hike, hike up, hot up, huff, hyperbolize, increase, inflate, intensify, irritate, jack up, jump up, labor, lay it on, lengthen, loop in, magnify, make acute, make much of, make worse, maximize, overcharge, overdo, overdraw, overestimate, overpraise, overreach, overreact, oversell, overspeak, overstate, overstress, parlay, particularize, pile it on, plug in, provoke, puff, puff up, pump, pump up, put up, pyramid, raise, rarefy, rehearse in extenso, relate at large, sharpen, shock, short, short-circuit, sour, spell out, step down, step up, stiffen, stretch, stretch the truth, sufflate, supplement, swell, switch off, switch on, talk big, talk in superlatives, thicken, tout, travesty, turn off, turn on, unfold, up, widen, work out, worsen
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