intensify

present singular third person intensifies · participle present intensifying · participle past intensified · past intensified

1. transitiveTo render more intense.

   to intensify colors

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   to intensify the heat or cold

   to intensify a photographic negative

   to intensify animosity

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

   Feminist critiques of continuity discourse have become increasingly audible within the mainstream Jewish world, intensifying last year after [Steven M.] Cohen himself was accused of serial sexual harassment.

   2019 August 7, Marissa Brostoff, Noah Kulwin, “The Right Kind of Continuity”, in Jewish Currents

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   Phoenix and Lubbock are both caught in severe drought, and it is going to get much worse. We may see many such [dust] storms in the decades ahead, along with species extinctions, radical disturbance of ecosystems, and intensified social conflict over land and water. Welcome to the Anthropocene, the epoch when humans have become a major geological and climatic force.

   2012 January 28, Donald Worster, “A Drier and Hotter Future”, in American Scientist, volume 100, number 1, archived from the original on 26 Jan 2012, page 70

   Synonyms: add, intensen, exalt