Definitions for amplify

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amplify am·pli·fy

Spelling: [am-pluh-fahy]

IPA: /ˈæm pləˌfaɪ/

Amplify is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 17 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 19 points.

You can make 149 anagrams from letters in amplify (afilmpy).

Definitions for amplify

verb (used with object)

1. to make larger, greater, or stronger; enlarge; extend.
2. to expand in stating or describing, as by details or illustrations; clarify by expanding.
3. Electricity. to increase the amplitude of; cause amplification in.
4. Archaic. to exaggerate.

verb (used without object)

1. to discourse at length; expatiate or expand one's remarks, speech, etc. (usually followed by on):

Origin of amplify

1375-1425; late Middle English amplifyen Middle French amplifier Latin amplificāre to increase, augment. See ample, -ify

Examples for amplify

Rabbi Jeiteles interrupted his class to amplify upon the passage just read.

Computerized trading programs react to trends in the market and then amplify those trends.

These tools of expression are meant to create and amplify energy.

He took the word from Bob and made no attempt to alter or to amplify it.

Actress, activist and African American: Danai Gurira believes in the power of using her voice to amplify African storytellers.

This defence is enough, but it is easy to amplify and reintrench it.

Let us transform and amplify that power and we encompass—destruction.

Society doesn't create these disorders, but it can amplify them, and by extension, it can diminish them.

She was determined—for her voice to be heard, and for it to amplify the voices of women throughout Libya.

This will do for a start, sir; we will amplify on the march!