amplified

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amplified - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Amplify \Am"pli*fy\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Amplified; p. pr. &
     vb. n. Amplifying.] [F. amplifier, L. amplificare. See
     Ample, -fy.]
     1. To render larger, more extended, or more intense, and the
        like; -- used especially of telescopes, microscopes, etc.
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     2. (Rhet.) To enlarge by addition or discussion; to treat
        copiously by adding particulars, illustrations, etc.; to
        expand; to make much of.
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              Troilus and Cressida was written by a Lombard
              author, but much amplified by our English
              translator.                           --Dryden.
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amplified - Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 :

  76 Moby Thesaurus words for "amplified":
     accelerated, aggrandized, aggravated, ampliate, annoyed, augmented,
     ballyhooed, beefed-up, bloated, boosted, broadened, built-up,
     crescendoed, deepened, deliberately provoked, disproportionate,
     elevated, embittered, enhanced, enlarged, exacerbated, exaggerated,
     exasperated, excessive, exorbitant, expanded, extended,
     extravagant, extreme, grandiloquent, heated up, heightened,
     high-flown, hiked, hotted up, hyperbolic, increased, inflated,
     inordinate, intensified, irritated, jazzed up, magnified,
     multiplied, overdone, overdrawn, overemphasized, overemphatic,
     overestimated, overgreat, overlarge, overpraised, oversold,
     overstated, overstressed, overwrought, prodigal, profuse,
     proliferated, provoked, puffed, raised, reinforced, soured, spread,
     stiffened, strengthened, stretched, superlative, swollen,
     tightened, touted, upped, widened, worse, worsened