intensify

intensify
    v 1: increase in extent or intensity; "The Allies escalated the
         bombing" [syn: {escalate}, {intensify}, {step up}] [ant:
         {de-escalate}, {step down}, {weaken}]
    2: 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}]
    3: become more intense; "The debate intensified"; "His dislike
       for raw fish only deepened in Japan" [syn: {intensify},
       {deepen}]
    4: make the chemically affected part of (a negative) denser or
       more opaque in order produce a stronger contrast between
       light and dark
    

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.
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         How piercing is the sting of pride
         By want embittered and intensified.      --Longfellow.
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Intensify \In*ten"si*fy\, v. i.
   To become intense, or more intense; to act with increasing
   power or energy.
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83 Moby Thesaurus words for "intensify":
      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