'Intensify' definitions:
Definition of 'intensify'
From: WordNet
verb
Increase in extent or intensity; "The Allies escalated the bombing" [syn: escalate, intensify, step up] [ant: de-escalate, step down, weaken]
verb
Make more intense, stronger, or more marked; "The efforts were intensified", "Her rudeness intensified his dislike for her"; "Pot smokers claim it heightens their awareness"; "This event only deepened my convictions" [syn: intensify, compound, heighten, deepen]
verb
Become more intense; "The debate intensified"; "His dislike for raw fish only deepened in Japan" [syn: intensify, deepen]
verb
Make the chemically affected part of (a negative) denser or more opaque in order produce a stronger contrast between light and dark
Definition of 'Intensify'
From: GCIDE
- Intensify \In*ten"si*fy\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Intensified; p. pr. & vb. n. Intensifying.] [Intense + -fly.] To render more intense; as, to intensify heat or cold; to intensify colors; to intensify a photographic negative; to intensify animosity. --Bacon. [1913 Webster]
- How piercing is the sting of pride By want embittered and intensified. --Longfellow. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Intensify'
From: GCIDE
- Intensify \In*ten"si*fy\, v. i. To become intense, or more intense; to act with increasing power or energy. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'intensify'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- accelerate,
- accent,
- accentuate,
- accrue,
- accumulate,
- advance,
- agent provocateur,
- aggrandize,
- aggravate,
- amplify,
- annoy,
- appreciate,
- augment,
- balloon,
- beef up,
- bloat,
- blow up,
- boom,
- breed,
- broaden,
- build up,
- complicate,
- concentrate,
- condense,
- consolidate,
- crescendo,
- deepen,
- deteriorate,
- develop,
- double,
- embitter,
- emphasize,
- enhance,
- enlarge,
- escalate,
- exacerbate,
- exaggerate,
- exalt,
- exasperate,
- focus,
- gain,
- gain strength,
- get ahead,
- go up,
- grow,
- heat up,
- heighten,
- hop up,
- hot up,
- increase,
- irritate,
- jazz up,
- key up,
- magnify,
- make acute,
- make complex,
- make worse,
- mount,
- multiply,
- proliferate,
- provoke,
- quicken,
- ramify,
- redouble,
- reinforce,
- rise,
- rouse,
- run up,
- sharpen,
- shoot up,
- snowball,
- soup up,
- sour,
- spread,
- step up,
- strengthen,
- stress,
- swell,
- triple,
- wax,
- whet,
- widen,
- worsen