Is compress the antonym of amplify?

“Core to what we do at Live Nation is helping amplify voices onstage around the world, and supporting voting is another important way we want to continue making voices heard,” said Michael Rapino, the company’s president and CEO, in a statement.

In removing accounts Tuesday, Twitter pointed to policies specifying, “You can’t artificially amplify or disrupt conversations through the use of multiple accounts.”

It will accelerate rapid, perhaps chaotic, urbanization of cities ill-equipped for the burden, testing their capacity to provide basic services and amplifying existing inequities.

Instead, they use it to amplify other projects that help them make money.

Our priority at our events is to amplify the voices that have been silenced by the majority.

“Our full mission is to amplify under-represented voices and to inspire action and promote empathy,” Atkins said.

If they find virus particles, researchers amplify them to figure out how many there are – a rough guide to how many people are infected among those who contributed feces and bodily fluids to the sewage sample.

“Just this week, we took down a network of 13 accounts and two pages that were trying to mislead Americans and amplify division,” he said.

The A5 Lux takes everything you know and love about a kick scooter and amplifies it for a truly satisfying ride.

Without a step to amplify viral material, however, an antigen test can be less sensitive than PCR or LAMP and result in a higher rate of false-negative results, up to 20 percent per the FDA’s emergency use authorization guidelines for antigen tests.

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Synonyms for amplify

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Synonyms for amplify

to express at greater length or in greater detail

to increase markedly in level or intensity, especially of sound

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Synonyms for amplify

increase in size, volume or significance

exaggerate or make bigger

increase the volume of

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English Synonyms and Antonyms(5.00 / 1 vote)Rate these synonyms:

  1. amplify

    Amplify is now rarely used in the sense of increase, to add material substance, bulk, volume, or the like; it is now almost wholly applied to discourse or writing, signifying to make fuller in statement, whether with or without adding matter of importance, as by stating fully what was before only implied, or by adding illustrations to make the meaning more readily apprehended, etc. The chief difficulty of very young writers is to amplify, to get beyond the bare curt statement by developing, expanding, unfolding the thought. The chief difficulty of those who have more material and experience is to condense sufficiently. So, in the early days of our literature amplify was used in the favorable sense; but at present this word and most kindred words are coming to share the derogatory meaning that has long attached to expatiate. We may develop a thought, expand an illustration, extend a discussion, expatiate on a hobby, dilate on something joyous or sad, enlarge a volume, unfold a scheme, widen the range of treatment.

    Antonyms:
    abbreviate, abridge, amputate, boil down, condense, curtail, cut down, epitomize, reduce, retrench, sum up, summarize

    Synonyms:
    augment, develop, dilate, enlarge, expand, expatiate, extend, increase, unfold, widen

    Preposition:
    To amplify on or upon the subject is needless. Amplify this matter by illustrations.

Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms(3.00 / 2 votes)Rate these synonyms:

  1. amplify

    Antonyms:
    retrench, amputate, curtail, condense, abbreviate, epitomize, gath, er, collect, sum

    Synonyms:
    enrich, enlarge, increase, augment, multiply, dilate, develop, swell, expatiate, expand, discuss, unfold, extend

Matched Categories

    • Enlarge
    • Increase
    • Intensify
    • Misinform

Princeton's WordNet(1.00 / 1 vote)Rate these antonyms:

  1. magnify, amplifyverb

    increase in size, volume or significance

    "Her terror was magnified in her mind"

    Synonyms:
    magnify, exaggerate, blow up, hyperbolise, enlarge, overdraw, expand, hyperbolize, inflate, overstate

  2. overstate, exaggerate, overdraw, hyperbolize, hyperbolise, magnify, amplifyverb

    to enlarge beyond bounds or the truth

    "tended to romanticize and exaggerate this `gracious Old South' imagery"

    Synonyms:
    exaggerate, blow up, hyperbolise, enlarge, overdraw, expand, overdo, hyperbolize, inflate, overstate, magnify

  3. inflate, blow up, expand, amplifyverb

    exaggerate or make bigger

    "The charges were inflated"

    Synonyms:
    balloon, go ballistic, lucubrate, expatiate, puff out, exposit, detonate, have kittens, flip one's wig, embroider, puff up, expound, flesh out, inflate, puff, hit the roof, explode, throw a fit, boom, extend, combust, spread out, flip one's lid, magnify, dilate, pad, embellish, lard, fly off the handle, set off, lose one's temper, overstate, enlarge, billow, blow a fuse, hit the ceiling, blow up, flourish, exaggerate, aggrandise, have a fit, dramatise, elaborate, thrive, expand, aggrandize, overdraw, hyperbolize, hyperbolise, dramatize, blow one's stack

  4. amplifyverb

    increase the volume of

    "amplify sound"

    Synonyms:
    exaggerate, blow up, hyperbolise, inflate, overdraw, expand, hyperbolize, overstate, magnify

How to use amplify in a sentence?

  1. Simon Schuster:

    We did not come to this decision lightly, as a publisher, it will always be our mission to amplify a variety of voices and viewpoints. At the same time, we take seriously our larger public responsibilityas citizens, and cannot support Sen.Hawley after his role in what became a dangerous threat.

  2. Sal LaRocca:

    Nike, Under Armour and Adidas had huge businesses in China and have done a great job in bringing players over there and exposing them in ways that frankly we would not be able to do, kobe( Kobe Bryant) has been there( China) many times with Nike, Steph Curry has been there many times with Under Armour so our partnerships, our relationships with those footwear companies they really amplify our on-the-ground efforts to grow the sport.

  3. Paresh Upadhyaya:

    Trade war concerns amplify the downside risk on global growth. That tends to be positive for the dollar and puts a drag on other currencies.

  4. Stephanie Murphy:

    I think all of that is pretty public, they were quite public about their efforts to amplify the President's call to use January 6 as a last stand in this effort to remain as president.

  5. Mike Murphy:

    Our job is just to amplify his story and what he's saying and we banked enough cash that nobody's turning our speaker off.

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What word means the opposite of amplify?

Opposite of 'amplify' will be option C, 'Curtail'. Curtail means to reduce or diminish.

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What is another word for amplify?

Some common synonyms of amplify are dilate, distend, expand, inflate, and swell.

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Some common synonyms of compress are condense, constrict, contract, deflate, and shrink.