intensify

4 definitions found

intensify - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  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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intensify - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  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 - Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 :

  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