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.
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aggravate, escalate, boost, raise, increase, strengthen, reinforce, redouble, exacerbate, deepen, enhance, sharpen, heighten, quicken, stress, darken, magnify, augment, point, accentuateExamples from the Web for intensifies
Contemporary Examples of intensifies
And Demme, by barely indicating the visual presence of the audience until the end, intensifies the closed-off, hermetic feeling.
Indeed, in conflict situations the rhetoric around honor often intensifies.
The Full Moon, Friday, intensifies the need for intimacy to near desperation.
Yet the gregariousness of the web only intensifies his solitude.
As the Israel-Palestine conflict drags on, it blocks the resolution of urgent crises and intensifies looming threats to the West.
Historical Examples of intensifies
Benedick, reporting to the same tune, intensifies his misery.
William ShakespeareJohn Masefield
It only intensifies the pain and doesnt work much of a cure.
The Making of Bobby BurnitGeorge Randolph Chester
To place white by the side of a color heightens or intensifies the tone of that color.
Color ValueC. R. Clifford
Not that the Divine Spirit supersedes their human faculties, but He intensifies them.
Lux MundiVarious
There are snow fields to cross, which intensifies the action.
Pony TracksFrederic Remington
intensify
- to make or become intense or more intense
- (tr) to increase the density of (a photographic film or plate)