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
   • amplify a telescope
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
   • GCN asked Gill just who this law was aimed at. "Child abusers" he responded. He would not amplify on what he meant by child abusers.1981 August 8, Nancy Wechsler, “Michigan May Register 'Sex Offenders'”, in Gay Community News, page 3
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.