Overemphasize vs Amplify - What's the difference?
overemphasize | amplify |
To place too much emphasis on; to overstate the importance of.
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.
As verbs the difference between overemphasize and amplify
is that overemphasize is to place too much emphasis on; to overstate the importance of while amplify is to render larger, more extended, or more intense, and the like;—used especially of loudspeakers, telescopes, microscopes, etc.overemphasize
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Alternative forms
* (UK) overemphasiseVerb
(overemphasiz)amplify
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Verb
(en-verb)- Troilus and Cressida was written by a Lombard author, but much amplified by our English translator.
