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Verb: intensify  in'tensu`fI
  1. Increase in extent or intensity
    - escalate, step up
     
  2. Make more intense, stronger, or more marked
    "The efforts were intensified"; "Her rudeness intensified his dislike for her"
    - compound, heighten, deepen
     
  3. Become more intense
    "The debate intensified"
    - deepen
     
  4. Make the chemically affected part of (a negative) denser or more opaque in order produce a stronger contrast between light and dark

Derived forms: intensified, intensifies, intensifying

See also: intensification, intensifier, intensity

Type of: alter, change, increase, modify