Amplify vs Aggrandize - What's the difference?
amplify | aggrandize |
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
To increase the amplitude of something, especially of an electric current.
To make great; to enlarge; to increase.
To make great or greater in power, rank, honor, or wealth; applied to persons, countries, etc.
* Prescott
To make appear great or greater; to exalt.
To increase or become great.
In lang=en terms the difference between amplify and aggrandize
is that amplify is to increase the amplitude of something, especially of an electric current while aggrandize is to increase or become great.As verbs the difference between amplify and aggrandize
is that amplify is to render larger, more extended, or more intense, and the like;—used especially of loudspeakers, telescopes, microscopes, etc while aggrandize is to make great; to enlarge; to increase.amplify
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Verb
(en-verb)- Troilus and Cressida was written by a Lombard author, but much amplified by our English translator.
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* *aggrandize
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Alternative forms
* aggrandise (mainly British)Verb
(aggrandiz)- to aggrandize our conceptions, authority, distress
- his scheme for aggrandizing his son
- (Charles Lamb)
