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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

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

Merriam Webster's

verb (-fied; -fying) Date: 1817 transitive verb 1. to make intense or more intensive ; strengthen 2. a. to increase the density and contrast of (a photographic image) by chemical treatment b. to make more acute ; sharpen intransitive verb to become intense or more intensive ; grow stronger or more acute • intensification noun

Oxford Reference Dictionary

v. (-ies, -ied) 1 tr. & intr. make or become intense or more intense. 2 tr. Photog. increase the opacity of (a negative). Derivatives: intensification n.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

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

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

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. --Longfellow.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

(intensifies, intensifying, intensified) If you intensify something or if it intensifies, it becomes greater in strength, amount, or degree. Britain is intensifying its efforts to secure the release of the hostages... The conflict is almost bound to intensify... = increase VERB: V n, V • intensification The country was on the verge of collapse because of the intensification of violent rebel attacks.

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

v. a. Strengthen, deepen, quicken, make intense, make more intense.

Moby Thesaurus

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