The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Amplify \Am"pli*fy\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Amplified; p. pr. &
   vb. n. Amplifying.] [F. amplifier, L. amplificare. See
   Ample, -fy.]
   1. To render larger, more extended, or more intense, and the
      like; -- used especially of telescopes, microscopes, etc.
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   2. (Rhet.) To enlarge by addition or discussion; to treat
      copiously by adding particulars, illustrations, etc.; to
      expand; to make much of.
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            Troilus and Cressida was written by a Lombard
            author, but much amplified by our English
            translator.                           --Dryden.
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Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:

76 Moby Thesaurus words for "amplified":
   accelerated, aggrandized, aggravated, ampliate, annoyed, augmented,
   ballyhooed, beefed-up, bloated, boosted, broadened, built-up,
   crescendoed, deepened, deliberately provoked, disproportionate,
   elevated, embittered, enhanced, enlarged, exacerbated, exaggerated,
   exasperated, excessive, exorbitant, expanded, extended,
   extravagant, extreme, grandiloquent, heated up, heightened,
   high-flown, hiked, hotted up, hyperbolic, increased, inflated,
   inordinate, intensified, irritated, jazzed up, magnified,
   multiplied, overdone, overdrawn, overemphasized, overemphatic,
   overestimated, overgreat, overlarge, overpraised, oversold,
   overstated, overstressed, overwrought, prodigal, profuse,
   proliferated, provoked, puffed, raised, reinforced, soured, spread,
   stiffened, strengthened, stretched, superlative, swollen,
   tightened, touted, upped, widened, worse, worsened