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Amplify vs Fatten - What's the difference?

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In transitive terms the difference between amplify and fatten

is that amplify is to increase the amplitude of something, especially of an electric current while fatten is to make fertile and fruitful; to enrich.

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.

    • Related terms

    () * ample * amplifiable * amplification * amplifier * amplificatory * amplitude

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    fatten

    English

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To become fatter
    • He gradually fattened in the five years after getting married.
  • To cause to be fatter
    • We must fatten the turkey in time for Thanksgiving.
  • To make fertile and fruitful; to enrich.
    • to fatten land
    (Dryden)

    Synonyms

    * (become fatter) get fat, grow fat, put on weight, gain

    See also

    * fattening * fatten up