intensify

in·ten·si·fi·ca·tion, nounde-in·ten·si·fy, verb, de·-in·ten·si·fied, de·-in·ten·si·fy·ing.o·ver·in·ten·si·fi·ca·tion, nouno·ver·in·ten·si·fy, verb, o·ver·in·ten·si·fied, o·ver·in·ten·si·fy·ing.

self-in·ten·si·fied, adjectiveself-in·ten·si·fy·ing, adjectiveun·in·ten·si·fied, adjective

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aggravate, intensify , worsen (see synonym study at aggravate)

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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 News
That 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-Science
When 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|Quartz
While 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|Digiday

A 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.
Mass Murder in the Holy City|Michael Tomasky|November 18, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Recently we have witnessed a frightening exacerbation of internal discord and an ominous intensification of inflammatory rhetoric.
What Happens When We Call People 'Amalek'|Zack Parker|July 17, 2013|DAILY BEAST
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|DAILY BEAST
The 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 Sinclair
They are natural means of intensification created directly by the emotion, though later modified by systematic invention.
Elements of Folk Psychology|Wilhelm Wundt
In this order of sequence, moreover, these agencies represent a progressive intensification of the religious activity of cult.
Elements of Folk Psychology|Wilhelm Wundt
This form of intensification from individual feeling to universal feeling is the basic form of Verhaeren's poem.
mile Verhaeren|Stefan Zweig
Now 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

intensify

/ (ɪnˈtɛnsɪˌfaɪ) /

verb -fies, -fying or -fied

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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