intensify

As the Israel-Palestine conflict drags on, it blocks the resolution of urgent crises and intensifies looming threats to the West.

There is isolation in the largest crowds; in fact, such environment only intensifies at times our sense of desolation.

Absence lessens weak, and intensifies violent, passions, as wind extinguishes a taper and lights up a fire.

It is evident that life in a separate college for women often intensifies this defect.

There are times when the spirit of the living so intensifies that it comes into a silence and darkness of nature like death.

It intensifies the desire in its present character, through opposition to the disagreeable tone of the experienced lack and want.