Antonyms for amplified

Grammar : Verb

Spell : am-pluh-fahy

Phonetic Transcription : ˈæm pləˌfaɪ

Definition of amplified

Origin : early 15c., "to enlarge or expand," from Middle French amplifier, from Latin amplificare "to enlarge," from amplificus "splendid," from amplus "large" (see ample) + the root of facere "make, do" (see factitious). Meaning "augment in volume or amount" is from 1570s. Restriction of use to sound seems to have emerged in the electronic age, c.1915, in reference to radio technology.

verb increase in size or effect

Example sentences :

The tidings of the next few days but amplified what Enoch had told us.
Extract from : « In the Valley » by Harold Frederic

The amplified roar of the voice reverberated from the hills.
Extract from : « The Best Made Plans » by Everett B. Cole

I asked him to be more explicit, and he amplified his epigram into: "Pekingese."
Extract from : « A Boswell of Baghdad » by E. V. Lucas

Space swelled, and was amplified to an extent of unutterable infinity.
Extract from : « Confessions of an English Opium-Eater » by Thomas De Quincey

It has been edited and amplified but is substantially as written by him.
Extract from : « Terry » by Charles Goff Thomson

Once or twice the other man corrected him or amplified some statement.
Extract from : « Brand Blotters » by William MacLeod Raine

"I sing tenor," I amplified, for as yet I suspected nothing.
Extract from : « Fibble, D. D. » by Irvin Shrewsbury Cobb

At every step this infernal power is amplified and magnified in these Novenas.
Extract from : « The Legacy of Ignorantism » by T.H. Pardo de Tavera

Published in improved and amplified form, Braunschweig, 1794.
Extract from : « Laurence Sterne in Germany » by Harvey Waterman Thayer

And she amplified the assertion by adding, "You haven't been here not this ever so long."
Extract from : « The Limit » by Ada Leverson

Synonyms for amplified

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