intensify

[In*ten·si*fy]

To intensify is to increase the intensity, force, or power of something. If you snap a selfie and the colors aren't intense enough, you may be able to intensify them with a photo editor.

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To render more intense; as, to intensify heat or cold; to intensify colors; to intensify a photographic negative; to intensify animosity.

Verb
become more intense; "The debate intensified"; "His dislike for raw fish only deepened in Japan"

Verb
make more intense, stronger, or more marked; "The efforts were intensified", "Her rudeness intensified his dislike for her"; "Potsmokers claim it heightens their awareness"; "This event only deepened my convictions"

Verb
increase in extent or intensity; "The Allies escalated the bombing"

Verb
make the chemically affected part of (a negative) denser or more opaque in order produce a stronger contrast between light and dark


v. t.
To render more intense; as, to intensify heat or cold; to intensify colors; to intensify a photographic negative; to intensify animosity.

v. i.
To become intense, or more intense; to act with increasing power or energy.


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.
How piercing is the sting of pride By want embittered and intensified.

Intensify

In*ten"si*fy, v. i. To become intense, or more intense; to act with increasing power or energy.

To render more intense; as, to intensify heat or cold; to intensify colors; to intensify a photographic negative; to intensify animosity.

To become intense, or more intense; to act with increasing power or energy.

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Usage Examples

Enhance and intensify one's vision of that synthesis of truth and beauty which is the highest and deepest reality.

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Other Usage Examples

I know that military alliances and armament have been the reliance for peace for centuries, but they do not produce peace and when war comes, as it inevitably does under such conditions, these armaments and alliances but intensify and broaden the conflict.

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