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Synonyms for boost

Synonyms for boost: advance and amplify. 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 · a wrong tile in 3 puzzles

The 2 synonyms for boost

Interchangeable with boost in this sense

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

advanceverb, in the sense "increase or raise"

Recorded from the other side of the pair

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

amplifyamplify is a verb in the sense "to increase the volume or intensity of a sound"

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

The senseverbTier 2, TreelineChange

increase or raise

Boost the voltage in an electrical circuit.

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

The true synonym

advance

Same sentence, swapped: Advance the voltage in an electrical circuit.

Close but different

These three are the other tiles for this sense. Each is a real word, and none of them can stand where boost stands in the sentence above.

punch
hook
dig

Where boost turns up in the game

boost 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 three other puzzles, where the answer is a different word entirely.

The puzzles where boost is the trap

hikenoun, Tier 2, Treeline. The answer there is tramp, in the sense "a long walk usually for exercise or pleasure", and boost is on the board beside it.
resortnoun, Tier 2, Treeline. The answer there is refuge, in the sense "act of turning to for assistance", and boost is one of the three tiles that lose.
extendverb, Tier 3, Ridgeline. The answer there is widen, in the sense "extend in scope or range or area", so boost is there to be ruled out.

Play boost

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

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This page is built from Open English WordNet 2025, with the sense, the sentence, the tier and the near misses read by a human in the July 2026 audit. No sentence here is generated at deploy time.

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Closest first: other change words at Treeline, then the same tier across the rest of the library.

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One vocabulary, two jobs

boost is an answer in 1 puzzle and a wrong tile in 3. That is how the bank is built, and it is why guessing by vibe stops working around tier three.

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