The Collaborative International Dictionary
Amplify \Am"pli*fy\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Amplified; p. pr. & vb. n. Amplifying.] [F. amplifier, L. amplificare. See Ample, -fy.]
To render larger, more extended, or more intense, and the like; -- used especially of telescopes, microscopes, etc.
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(Rhet.) To enlarge by addition or discussion; to treat copiously by adding particulars, illustrations, etc.; to expand; to make much of.
Troilus and Cressida was written by a Lombard author, but much amplified by our English translator.
--Dryden.
Wiktionary
vb. (present participle of amplify English)
Usage examples of "amplifying".
With officers, sergeants, and corporals amplifying the simple command, the 47th North Carolina became a long gray serpent that wound its way out of the encampment, as if shedding a confining winter skin, and tramped north up the road toward Orange Court House.