amplify

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To render larger, more extended, or more intense, and the like; -- used especially of telescopes, microscopes, etc.

To enlarge by addition or discussion; to treat copiously by adding particulars, illustrations, etc.; to expand; to make much of.

To become larger.

To speak largely or copiously; to be diffuse in argument or description; to dilate; to expatiate; -- often with on or upon.

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amplify sound Source: Internet

The charges were inflated Source: Internet

Her terror was magnified in her mind Source: Internet

tended to romanticize and exaggerate this `gracious Old South' imagery Source: Internet

Acting Homeland Security Secretary Chad Wolf is expected to travel to one of the targeted cities to amplify Trump's claims that he is a "law and order president" who is doing more to protect Americans than their local leaders. Source: Internet

A group in Anchorage tries to amplify the concerns of Alaska’s second-largest ethnic voting demographic. Source: Internet

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