What are the opposite words for amplify?
Antonyms for the word "amplify" include words such as decrease, diminish, lessen, reduce, contract, and downplay. Whereas amplifying something involves expanding and intensifying its strength or effect, these antonyms suggest a reduction or weakening of influence. The opposite of amplification can also imply a lack of attention, focus or importance in a given situation. It might involve playing down the importance of certain information or deliberately underplaying a situation to avoid calling attention to it. These antonyms help to convey a more nuanced and varied perspective on how we communicate and convey meaning in language.
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- contract
- curtail
- diminish
- shorten
- underestimate
- weaken
- abbreviate
- abridge
- abstract
- compress
- condense
- encapsulate
- epitomize
- reduce
- understate
- abate
- attenuate
- digest
- lessen, grow or cause to grow less
- prepare short document from longer one
- increase in size or effect
- compact, condense
- cut short; abridge
- make shorter; abridge
- become or cause to be less
- make less; decrease
- diminish, decrease
- Other relevant words
- Other antonyms
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contract
- come around,
- draw in,
- fall away,
- indispose,
- ink,
- lose,
- sign up,
- wrinkle,
- Indisposing,
- Initialing,
- Inked,
- Inking,
- inks,
- indisposes,
- go along with,
- go down with,
- sign for,
- swear to,
- signed up,
- signed for,
- grow less,
- be afflicted with,
- give ones word,
- give word,
- accept offer,
- accepted offer,
- accepting offer,
- accepts offer,
- am afflicted with,
- am ill with,
- are afflicted with,
- are ill with,
- art afflicted with,
- art ill with,
- be ill with,
- became indebted,
- became infected with,
- became smaller,
- become indebted,
- become infected with,
- become smaller,
- becomes indebted,
- becomes infected with,
- becomes smaller,
- becoming indebted,
- becoming infected with,
- becoming smaller,
- being afflicted with,
- being ill with,
- came around,
- comes around,
- coming around,
- de range,
- de ranged,
- de ranges,
- de ranging,
- de-range,
- de-ranged,
- de-ranges,
- de-ranging,
- dis order,
- dis ordered,
- dis ordering,
- dis orders,
- dis-order,
- dis-ordered,
- dis-ordering,
- dis-orders,
- drawing in,
- draws in,
- drew in,
- enter in to,
- fall victim to,
- falling away,
- falls away,
- falls victim to,
- fell away,
- fell victim to,
- firm deal,
- firmed a deal,
- firmed deal,
- firming a deal,
- firming deal,
- firms a deal,
- firms deal,
- gave one's word,
- gave ones word,
- gave word,
- give one word,
- give one's word,
- gives one word,
- gives ones word,
- gives word,
- giving one's word,
- giving ones word,
- giving word,
- going down with,
- grew less,
- growing less,
- grows less,
- hammer out deal,
- hammering out deal,
- hammers out deal,
- in curred,
- in dispose,
- in disposed,
- in disposes,
- in disposing,
- in duce,
- in duces,
- in-curred,
- in-curring,
- in-disposed,
- in-disposes,
- in-disposing,
- in-duce,
- in-duces,
- initialled,
- initialling,
- is afflicted with,
- is ill with,
- it a deal,
- it a dealing,
- it a deals,
- it a dealt,
- it deal,
- it dealing,
- it deals,
- it dealt,
- it's a dealing,
- it's a deals,
- it's deal,
- it's dealing,
- it's deals,
- it's dealt,
- its a dealing,
- its a deals,
- its a dealt,
- its deal,
- its dealing,
- made terms,
- make terms,
- making terms,
- pacted,
- pacting,
- pro mise,
- pro mises,
- pro-mise,
- pro-mises,
- put writing,
- puts writing,
- putting in writing,
- putting writing,
- shake hands it,
- shake hands on it,
- shakes hands on it,
- shaking hands it,
- shaking hands on it,
- shook hands it,
- shook hands on it,
- sign papers,
- signing for,
- signing papers,
- signing up,
- signs for,
- signs papers,
- signs up,
- succumb to,
- succumbing to,
- succumbs to,
- sware to,
- swearing to,
- swears to,
- swore to,
- take death,
- take one death,
- take one's death,
- take ones death,
- takes death,
- takes one death,
- takes one's death,
- takes ones death,
- taking death,
- taking one death,
- taking one's death,
- taking ones death,
- took death,
- took one death,
- took one's death,
- took ones death,
- under take,
- under taken,
- under takes,
- under taking,
- under took,
- under-taken,
- under-takes,
- under-taking,
- up set,
- up sets,
- up setting,
- up-set,
- up-sets,
- up-setting,
- was afflicted with,
- was ill with,
- wast afflicted with,
- went down with,
- were afflicted with,
- were ill with,
- wert afflicted with,
- wert ill with,
- work out details,
- works out details,
- wrought out details.
- curtail
- diminish
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shorten
- abbreviate,
- cut the bone,
- cut to the bone,
- cuts the bone,
- cuts to the bone,
- cutting the bone,
- cutting to the bone,
- made a long story short,
- made long story short,
- make a long story short,
- make long story short,
- makes a long story short,
- makes long story short,
- making a long story short,
- making long story short.
- underestimate
- weaken
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abbreviate
- boil down,
- take out,
- put in a nutshell,
- boiled down,
- boiling down,
- boils down,
- gat meat,
- gat the meat,
- gat to meat,
- gat to the meat,
- get meat,
- get the meat,
- get to meat,
- get to the meat,
- gets meat,
- gets the meat,
- gets to meat,
- gets to the meat,
- getting meat,
- getting the meat,
- getting to meat,
- getting to the meat,
- got meat,
- got the meat,
- got to meat,
- got to the meat,
- gotten meat,
- gotten the meat,
- gotten to meat,
- gotten to the meat,
- put a nutshell,
- put nutshell,
- puts a nutshell,
- puts in a nutshell,
- puts in nutshell,
- puts nutshell,
- putting a nutshell,
- putting in a nutshell,
- putting in nutshell,
- putting nutshell,
- re strict,
- re-strict,
- stop short,
- stopped short,
- stopping short,
- stopt short,
- takes out,
- taking out,
- took out.
- abridge
- abstract
-
compress
- syncopate,
- syncopated,
- telescope,
- telescoped,
- Telescoping,
- Wedging,
- Syncopating,
- telescopes,
- syncopates,
- make brief,
- de hydrate,
- de hydrated,
- de hydrates,
- de hydrating,
- de-hydrate,
- de-hydrated,
- de-hydrates,
- de-hydrating,
- densen,
- densened,
- densening,
- densens,
- densified,
- densifies,
- densify,
- densifying,
- force in to space,
- force into space,
- forced in to space,
- forced into space,
- forces in to space,
- forces into space,
- forcing into space,
- made brief,
- makes brief,
- pressed together,
- presses together,
- pressing together,
- tele scoped,
- tele scoping,
- tele-scoped,
- tele-scoping.
- condense
- encapsulate
- epitomize
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reduce
- banting,
- lose weight,
- mark down,
- scale down,
- slow down,
- Bankrupted,
- Bankrupting,
- marked down,
- rebated,
- rebating,
- bankrupts,
- wind down,
- bant,
- slowed down,
- slowing down,
- banted,
- bants,
- de base,
- de based,
- de basing,
- de press,
- de pressed,
- de presses,
- de pressing,
- de-base,
- de-based,
- de-basing,
- de-press,
- de-pressed,
- de-presses,
- de-pressing,
- dis counted,
- dis counting,
- dis counts,
- dis-counted,
- dis-counting,
- dis-counts,
- go a diet,
- go diet,
- go on a diet,
- go on diet,
- goes a diet,
- goes on a diet,
- going a diet,
- going diet,
- going on a diet,
- going on diet,
- loses weight,
- losing weight,
- lost weight,
- re bate,
- re bated,
- re bates,
- re bating,
- re duce,
- re duces,
- re-bate,
- re-bated,
- re-bating,
- re-duce,
- re-duces,
- scaled down,
- scales down,
- scaling down,
- slows down,
- take off weight,
- take weight,
- takes off weight,
- takes weight,
- taking off weight,
- taking weight,
- took off weight,
- took weight,
- went a diet,
- went on a diet,
- went on diet,
- winded down,
- winding down,
- winds down,
- wound down.
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understate
- understated,
- de value,
- de valued,
- de values,
- de valuing,
- de-value,
- de-valued,
- de-values,
- de-valuing,
- under rate,
- under rated,
- under rates,
- under rating,
- under state,
- under stated,
- under states,
- under stating,
- under value,
- under valued,
- under values,
- under-rate,
- under-rated,
- under-rates,
- under-rating,
- under-state,
- under-stated,
- under-states,
- under-stating,
- under-value,
- under-valued,
- under-values,
- under-valuing.
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abate
- cool it,
- let go,
- mellow out,
- quell,
- recede,
- take it easy,
- taper off,
- unlax,
- waning,
- Dulling,
- Slackened,
- Waned,
- letting go,
- lets go,
- tapers,
- dulls,
- slackens,
- cooled it,
- cooling it,
- cools it,
- de cline,
- de clines,
- de crease,
- de creased,
- de creases,
- de creasing,
- de-cline,
- de-clines,
- de-crease,
- de-creased,
- de-creases,
- de-creasing,
- go with flow,
- go with the flow,
- goes with flow,
- goes with the flow,
- going with flow,
- going with the flow,
- hang easy,
- hang loose,
- hanged easy,
- hanged loose,
- hanging easy,
- hanging loose,
- hangs easy,
- hangs loose,
- hung easy,
- hung loose,
- laid back,
- lay back,
- laying back,
- lays back,
- let all hang out,
- let hang out,
- let it all hang out,
- let it hang out,
- lets all hang out,
- lets hang out,
- lets it all hang out,
- lets it hang out,
- letted all hang out,
- letted go,
- letted hang out,
- letted it all hang out,
- letted it hang out,
- letting all hang out,
- letting hang out,
- letting it all hang out,
- letting it hang out,
- mellowed out,
- mellowing out,
- mellows out,
- re cede,
- re ceded,
- re cedes,
- re ceding,
- re-cede,
- re-ceded,
- re-cedes,
- re-ceding,
- sub due,
- sub dues,
- sub side,
- sub sided,
- sub sides,
- sub siding,
- sub-due,
- sub-dues,
- sub-side,
- sub-sided,
- sub-sides,
- sub-siding,
- take easy,
- takes easy,
- takes it easy,
- taking easy,
- taking it easy,
- tapers off,
- took easy,
- took it easy,
- un lax,
- un-lax,
- unlaxed,
- unlaxes,
- unlaxing,
- went with flow,
- went with the flow.
- attenuate
- digest
- lessen, grow or cause to grow less
- prepare short document from longer one
- increase in size or effect
- compact, condense
- cut short; abridge
- make shorter; abridge
- become or cause to be less
- make less; decrease
- diminish, decrease
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Other relevant words
- abate,
- abstract,
- alleviate,
- amputate,
- compress,
- condense,
- constrict,
- contract,
- cut back,
- cut down,
- de-escalate,
- deduct,
- dissever,
- downplay,
- dwindle,
- ease,
- epitomize,
- lighten,
- lower,
- minify,
- minimise,
- minimize,
- moderate,
- outline,
- recede,
- remove,
- retrench,
- subdue,
- subside,
- sum up,
- taper,
- tone,
- understate,
- wane,
- weaken,
- withdraw,
- downsize,
- decline,
- ebb,
- moderate.
- Other antonyms
Antonym of the day
split down the middle
- Antonyms:
- combine, join.
