Intensify

4 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [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.
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           How piercing is the sting of pride
           By want embittered and intensified.      --Longfellow.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Intensify \In*ten"si*fy\, v. i.
     To become intense, or more intense; to act with increasing
     power or energy.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

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

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  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