amplify

Verb

• increase the volume of
  • amplify sound
    

• exaggerate or make bigger
  • The charges were inflated
    

• to enlarge beyond bounds or the truth
  • tended to romanticize and exaggerate this `gracious Old South' imagery
    

• increase in size, volume or significance
  • Her terror was magnified in her mind
    

Related words

• Synonyms: 
  inflate , blow up , expand , overstate , exaggerate , overdraw , hyperbolize , hyperbolise , magnify
• Antonyms: 
  understate , minimize , minimise , downplay