Perception

Synonyms for amplify

Synonyms for amplify: boost and exaggerate. Every one of them is a hand audited pair from the Synonym Stack word bank, shown below in the sense it fits, in a real sentence, and beside the words that only look close.

2 synonyms · Tier 2, Treeline · 1 sense · verb · 1 reason line · a wrong tile in 1 puzzle

The 2 synonyms for amplify

Interchangeable with amplify in this sense

Audited under amplify's own entry, so the meaning quoted is the one amplify carries in that sense.

boostverb, in the sense "to increase the volume or intensity of a sound"

Recorded from the other side of the pair

These entries were written under the other word and name amplify as the true synonym, so the sense quoted is theirs.

exaggerateexaggerate is a verb in the sense "to enlarge beyond bounds or the truth"

Two directions, one standard: one audited under amplify and one under the partner word. Nothing here was expanded out of a thesaurus.

The senseverbTier 2, TreelinePerception

to increase the volume or intensity of a sound

Megaphones amplify voices across an entire stadium.

The context the game gives you. The gloss above is for readers here, not for players there.

The true synonym

boost

Same sentence, swapped: Megaphones boost voices across an entire stadium.

Close but different

These three are the other tiles the game puts on screen for this sense, and the note above says why the closest of them fails. None is a synonym for amplify in the sentence quoted.

distort
mute
record

Where amplify turns up in the game

amplify is the word under test in one puzzle, at Tier 2, Treeline. It also sits on the board as one of the three wrong tiles in one other puzzle, where the answer is a different word entirely.

The puzzle where amplify is the trap

lessenverb, Tier 4, High Camp. The answer there is attenuate, in the sense "to make something smaller in amount, degree, or intensity", and amplify is on the board beside it.

Play amplify

The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so amplify reaches you as a board rather than a definition: the sentence first, four tiles, and the meaning after you choose.

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A reason under every answer, not just a right answer

Synonym Stack plays from this exact bank. amplify carries 1 written reason line, and the game shows them the moment a round ends, whichever tile you tapped.

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