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Amplify vs Aggrandise - What's the difference?

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Amplify is a related term of aggrandise.


As verbs the difference between amplify and aggrandise

is that amplify is to render larger, more extended, or more intense, and the like;—used especially of loudspeakers, telescopes, microscopes, etc while aggrandise is .

amplify

English

Verb

(en-verb)
  • To render larger, more extended, or more intense, and the like;—used especially of loudspeakers, telescopes, microscopes, etc.
  • (rhetorical) To enlarge by addition or discussion; to treat copiously by adding particulars, illustrations, etc.; to expand; to make much of.
  • * Dryden
  • Troilus and Cressida was written by a Lombard author, but much amplified by our English translator.
  • To increase the amplitude of something, especially of an electric current.
  • aggrandise

    English

    Verb

    (aggrandis)
  • Derived terms

    * aggrandisement