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amplified

amplified is the simple past and past participle of amplify.

Meaning of amplify

Verb

amplify (third-person singular simple present amplifies, present participle amplifying, simple past and past participle amplified)

  1. (transitive) To render larger, more extended, or more intense.
    • amplify the loudspeaker
  2. (transitive, rhetorical) To enlarge by addition or commenting; to treat copiously by adding particulars, illustrations, etc.; to expand.
    • Troilus and Cressida was written by a Lombard author, but much amplified by our English translator.1700, John Dryden, Fables, Ancient and Modern
  3. (transitive) To increase the amplitude of something, especially of an electric current.
    • amplify a signal. It's amplified so you can hear the audio.
  4. To add content that is not present in the source text to the target text, usually to improve the fluency of the translation.

Adjective

amplified (comparative more amplified, superlative most amplified)

  1. Having been made the subject of amplification; more potent or stronger, louder

Forms of amplified

comparativemore amplified
superlativemost amplified

Words formed from amplified

Phrases with amplified

Questions about amplified

What does amplified mean?
Amplified means having been made the subject of amplification; more potent or stronger, louder.
What is amplified the simple past and past participle of?
Amplified is the simple past and past participle of amplify.
What part of speech is amplified?
Amplified is an adjective.

Words near amplified in the dictionary

  1. amplifications
  2. amplificative
  3. amplificatory
  4. amplificon
  5. amplificons
  6. amplified
  7. amplifier
  8. amplifiers
  9. amplifies
  10. amplify
  11. amplifying

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Adapted from Wiktionary: amplified (page history and authors); amplify (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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