Thesaurus: intensify

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1. v. t. To render more intense; as, to intensify heat or cold; to intensify colors; to intensify a photographic negative; to intensify animosity.
2. v. i. To become intense, or more intense; to act with increasing power or energy.
3. v. increase in extent or intensity
4. v. make more intense, stronger, or more marked
5. v. become more intense
6. v. make the chemically affected part of (a negative) denser or more opaque in order produce a stronger contrast between light and dark
7. 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. Longfellow. To become intense, or more intense; to act with increasing power or energy.
8. To render more intense; as, to intensify heat or cold; tointensify colors; to intensify a photographic negative; to intensifyanimosity. Bacon.How piercing is the sting of pride By want embittered andintensified. Longfellow.
9. v:100 v. make more intense, stronger, or more marked v. become more intense v. make the chemically affected part of (a negative) denser or more opaque in order produce a stronger contrast between light and dark