AMPLIFY Copy link • AMPLIFYamplificare (= “enlarge,” and also “set off by rhetorical exaggeration”). Also dilatare (alicujus imperium, gloriam): propagare or proferre (aliquid, fines alicujus rei, etc.); augere: multiplicare. Vid. ENLARGE, INCREASE. Exaggerate rhetorically, amplificare: verbis exaggerare: multiplicare verbis (represent as more numerous than they really are; e.g., copias): verbis augere: in majus (verbis) extollere: in falsum augere (Tac.).