Amplify: alternatives and connections

To make great; to enlarge; to increase; as, to aggrandize our conceptions, authority, distress.

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To flower; to blossom; to bloom.

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To blow fitfully with violence and noise, as wind; to be windy and boisterous, as the weather.

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To vaunt one's self; to brag; to say or tell things which are intended to give others a high opinion of one's self or of things belonging to one's se…

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To talk about one's self, or things pertaining to one's self, in a manner intended to excite admiration, envy, or wonder; to talk boastfully; to boas…

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To compose in the form of the drama; to represent in a drama; to adapt to dramatic representation; as, to dramatize a novel, or an historical episode.

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To make beautiful or elegant by ornaments; to decorate; to adorn; as, to embellish a book with pictures, a garden with shrubs and flowers, a narrativ…

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To ornament with needlework; as, to embroider a scarf.

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An aeriform fluid; -- a term used at first by chemists as synonymous with air, but since restricted to fluids supposed to be permanently elastic, as…

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A boast or boasting; a vaunt; a bravado; a bragging; braggodocio.

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Bacon; the flesh of swine.

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A footpath; a road.

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An oval figure, whose moldings are oblique to the axis of the work.

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To act as a tout. See 2d Tout.

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To boast; to make a vain display of one's own worth, attainments, decorations, or the like; to talk ostentatiously; to brag.

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In the East Indies, an inclosure containing a house, outbuildings, etc.

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To make deep or deeper; to increase the depth of; to sink lower; as, to deepen a well or a channel.

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To make larger; to increase in quantity or dimensions; to extend in limits; to magnify; as, the body is enlarged by nutrition; to enlarge one's house.

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To make high; to raise higher; to elevate.

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To become greater or more in size, quantity, number, degree, value, intensity, power, authority, reputation, wealth; to grow; to augment; to advance;…

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To render more intense; as, to intensify heat or cold; to intensify colors; to intensify a photographic negative; to intensify animosity.

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To give untrue information to; to inform wrongly.

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To lead into a wrong way or path; to lead astray; to guide into error; to cause to mistake; to deceive.

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One who or that which amplifies.

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One who or that which amplifies.

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The act of magnifying; enlargement; exaggeration.

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The act of magnifying; enlargement; exaggeration.

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Extent of dimensions; size; -- applied to things that have length, breath, and thickness.

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Extent of dimensions; size; -- applied to things that have length, breath, and thickness.

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An exaggerated statement or account.

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An exaggerated statement or account.

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To heap up; to accumulate.

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To lay open by extending; to open wide; to spread out; to diffuse; as, a flower expands its leaves.

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To speak or write with exaggeration.

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Blown in; inflated.

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To make great, or greater; to increase the dimensions of; to amplify; to enlarge, either in fact or in appearance; as, the microscope magnifies the o…

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To exaggerate; to overdo.

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To state in too strong terms; to exaggerate.

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