intensify
English edit
Etymology edit
intense + -ify. Compare French intensifier.
Pronunciation edit
Verb edit
intensify (third-person singular simple present intensifies, present participle intensifying, simple past and past participle intensified)
- (transitive) To render more intense
- to intensify the heat or cold
- to intensify colors
- to intensify a photographic negative
- to intensify animosity
- (intransitive) To become intense, or more intense; to act with increasing power or energy.
- 2019 August 7, Marissa Brostoff, Noah Kulwin, “The Right Kind of Continuity”, in Jewish Currents[1]:
- Feminist critiques of continuity discourse have become increasingly audible within the mainstream Jewish world, intensifying last year after [Steven M.] Cohen himself was accused of serial sexual harassment.
Synonyms edit
- (become intense or more intense): intensen
Related terms edit
Translations edit
to render more intense
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to become more intense
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