intensify
to make intense or more intense.
to make more acute; strengthen or sharpen.
Photography. to increase the density and contrast of (a negative) chemically.
to become intense or more intense.
Origin of intensify
1synonym study For intensify
Other words for intensify
Opposites for intensify
Other words from intensify
- in·ten·si·fi·ca·tion, noun
- de-in·ten·si·fy, verb, de·-in·ten·si·fied, de·-in·ten·si·fy·ing.
- o·ver·in·ten·si·fi·ca·tion, noun
- o·ver·in·ten·si·fy, verb, o·ver·in·ten·si·fied, o·ver·in·ten·si·fy·ing.
- self-in·ten·si·fied, adjective
- self-in·ten·si·fy·ing, adjective
- un·in·ten·si·fied, adjective
Words that may be confused with intensify
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How to use intensify in a sentence
The pandemic has intensified those risks, and for Frick, put the need to speak up “on steroids now.”
Why bat scientists are socially distancing from their subjects | Jerimiah Oetting | October 23, 2020 | Science NewsThat signal tells us that climate change is intensifying wildfires and other weather events.
It’s about time adults start rising up against climate change | Alexandria Villaseñor | October 21, 2020 | Popular-ScienceWhen his daughter was born in 2010, Kaper’s desire to find his biological mother intensified.
Despite mixed results, south Asian adoptees turn to DNA tests | Bhavya Dore | October 20, 2020 | QuartzWhile Emerson knowingly pushed the company into the red to make a meaningful expansion, growing the editorial, product, engineering and growth teams, the losses intensified as the wider advertising environment flagged.
Inside the Atlantic’s triumphant and tumultuous run during the coronavirus pandemic | Steven Perlberg | October 20, 2020 | DigidayA warming climate is intensifying risks to forests that are already stressed by wildfires, drought, and pests.
Healthy forests do more than just prevent wildfires | By Bales & Conklin/The Conversation | October 19, 2020 | Popular-Science
But the second thing is the way this city has changed in recent years, the intensification of the separation.
Recently we have witnessed a frightening exacerbation of internal discord and an ominous intensification of inflammatory rhetoric.
Consider the withdrawal from Iraq and the simultaneous intensification of the war against the Taliban.
Bernard-Henri Lévy on Barack Obama’s Three Revolutions | Bernard-Henri Lévy | October 30, 2012 | THE DAILY BEASTThe changes have resulted in an enormous intensification of our political activities.
The Book of Life: Vol. I Mind and Body; Vol. II Love and Society | Upton SinclairThey are natural means of intensification created directly by the emotion, though later modified by systematic invention.
Elements of Folk Psychology | Wilhelm WundtIn this order of sequence, moreover, these agencies represent a progressive intensification of the religious activity of cult.
Elements of Folk Psychology | Wilhelm WundtThis form of intensification from individual feeling to universal feeling is the basic form of Verhaeren's poem.
mile Verhaeren | Stefan ZweigNow he loves the wind as one of the thousand things of the earth which contribute to the intensification of his vital feeling.
mile Verhaeren | Stefan Zweig
British Dictionary definitions for intensify
/ (ɪnˈtɛnsɪˌfaɪ) /
to make or become intense or more intense
(tr) to increase the density of (a photographic film or plate)
Derived forms of intensify
- intensification, noun
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