Usually means: Increase or intensify in strength.
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We found 34 dictionaries that define the word amplify:

General (27 matching dictionaries)
  1. amplify: Merriam-Webster
  2. amplify: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. amplify: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. amplify: Collins English Dictionary
  5. amplify: Vocabulary.com
  6. Amplify, amplify: Wordnik
  7. amplify: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. amplify: Wiktionary
  9. amplify: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. amplify: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. amplify: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. amplify: Dictionary.com
  13. amplify: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. amplify: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Amplify (company), Amplify (distributor), Amplify: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Amplify: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. amplify: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. amplify: Rhymezone
  19. amplify: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. amplify: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. amplify: FreeDictionary.org
  22. amplify: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. amplify: TheFreeDictionary.com
  24. amplify: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  25. amplify: Merriam-Webster

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. amplify: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. amplify: Encyclopedia

Medicine (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. amplify: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  3. amplify: Medical dictionary

Science (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Amplify: Biology dictionary
  2. AGRICULTURAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL BIOTECHNOLOGY (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
verb:  (transitive) To render larger, more extended, or more intense.
verb:  (transitive, rhetorical) To enlarge by addition or commenting; to treat copiously by adding particulars, illustrations, etc.; to expand.
verb:  (transitive) To increase the amplitude of something, especially of an electric current.
verb:  (translation studies) To add content that is not present in the source text to the target text, usually to improve the fluency of the translation.

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