amplified
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Amplify \Am"pli*fy\, v. t. [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.
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2. (Rhet.) To enlarge by addition or discussion; to treat
copiously by adding particulars, illustrations, etc.; to
expand; to make much of.
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Troilus and Cressida was written by a Lombard
author, but much amplified by our English
translator. --Dryden.
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from
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
76 Moby Thesaurus words for "amplified":
accelerated, aggrandized, aggravated, ampliate, annoyed, augmented,
ballyhooed, beefed-up, bloated, boosted, broadened, built-up,
crescendoed, deepened, deliberately provoked, disproportionate,
elevated, embittered, enhanced, enlarged, exacerbated, exaggerated,
exasperated, excessive, exorbitant, expanded, extended,
extravagant, extreme, grandiloquent, heated up, heightened,
high-flown, hiked, hotted up, hyperbolic, increased, inflated,
inordinate, intensified, irritated, jazzed up, magnified,
multiplied, overdone, overdrawn, overemphasized, overemphatic,
overestimated, overgreat, overlarge, overpraised, oversold,
overstated, overstressed, overwrought, prodigal, profuse,
proliferated, provoked, puffed, raised, reinforced, soured, spread,
stiffened, strengthened, stretched, superlative, swollen,
tightened, touted, upped, widened, worse, worsened
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