MEANING
1. To increase the strength, magnitude, or amplitude of something.
2. To expand an account or explanation with further detail.
Use it for
Words that belong together
- amplify a signal
- amplify a difference
On the page
The chamber amplified the smallest movement into an audible vibration.
The repeated warning amplified the uncertainty it was meant to dispel.
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Word forms
- Base
- amplify
- Past tense
- amplified
- Past participle
- amplified
- Present participle
- amplifying
Full tense & aspect guide
- Present
- amplify
- Present continuous
- am/is/are amplifying
- Present perfect
- have/has amplified
- Present perfect continuous
- have/has been amplifying
- Past
- amplified
- Past continuous
- was/were amplifying
- Past perfect
- had amplified
- Past perfect continuous
- had been amplifying
- Future
- will amplify
- Future continuous
- will be amplifying
- Future perfect
- will have amplified
- Future perfect continuous
- will have been amplifying
Choose the auxiliary that agrees with your subject. These are constructions of one word, not separate entries.
Usage notes
Primary category: literary. Forms: amplify; amplifies; amplified; amplified; amplifying Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings. Third-person singular: amplifies.
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