Amplify vs Exaggerates - What's the difference?
amplify | exaggerates |
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.
(exaggerate)
To overstate, to describe more than is fact.
As verbs the difference between amplify and exaggerates
is that amplify is to render larger, more extended, or more intense, and the like;—used especially of loudspeakers, telescopes, microscopes, etc while exaggerates is (exaggerate).amplify
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(en-verb)- Troilus and Cressida was written by a Lombard author, but much amplified by our English translator.
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* *exaggerates
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(head)exaggerate
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(exaggerat)- I've told you a billion times not to exaggerate !
- He said he'd slept with hundreds of girls, but I know he's exaggerating . The real number is about ten.
