amplifying

Definitions

Increasing the volume of sound, especially using an amplifier.

Expanding upon or adding detail to a statement or story.

Increasing the magnitude, intensity, or extent of something.

Examples

The microphone was amplifying his voice so that everyone in the back of the hall could hear him clearly.

Social media is often criticized for amplifying divisive rhetoric rather than fostering constructive dialogue.

Synonyms

increasing magnifying intensifying expanding boosting augmenting enlarging

Antonyms

decreasing reducing diminishing lessening weakening curtailing abating