To render larger, more extended, or more intense.
amplify the loudspeaker
To enlarge by addition or commenting; to treat copiously by adding particulars, illustrations, etc.; to expand.
Troilus and Cressida was written by a Lombard author, but much amplified by our English translator.
To increase the amplitude of something, especially of an electric current.
amplify a signal
From Middle English amplifiyen, from Old French amplifier, from Latin amplificare (“to enlarge”), from amplus (“large”) + facere (“to make”). See ample , equivalent to ample + -ify.
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