AMPLIFY


Meaning of AMPLIFY in English

(amplifies, ~ing, amplified)

1.

If you ~ a sound, you make it louder, usually by using electronic equipment.

This landscape seemed to trap and ~ sounds...

The music was amplified with microphones...

‘This is the police,’ came the amplified voice from the helicopter.

VERB: V n, V n, V-ed

amplification

...a voice that needed no amplification.

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2.

To ~ something means to increase its strength or intensity.

The mist had been replaced by a kind of haze that seemed to ~ the heat...

VERB: V n

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