intensify

• POS: Verb (usu participle), Verb (transitive)
• HYPHEN: in=ten=si=fy

CIDE DICTIONARY

intensify, v. t. [Intense + -fly.].

 To render more intense; as, to intensify heat or cold; to intensify colors; to intensify a photographic negative; to intensify animosity.  Bacon.  [1913 Webster]
"How piercing is the sting of pride
By want embittered and intensified."  [1913 Webster]

intensify, v. i. 

 To become intense, or more intense; to act with increasing power or energy.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

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

Derivative

intensification n.

THESAURUS

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

ROGET THESAURUS

intensify

Increase

VB increase, augment, add to, enlarge, dilate, grow, wax, get ahead, gain strength, advance, run up, shoot up, rise, ascend, sprout, aggrandize, raise, exalt, deepen, heighten, strengthen, intensify, enhance, magnify, redouble, aggravate, exaggerate, exasperate, exacerbate, add fuel to the flame, oleum addere camino, superadd, spread.

Physical Energy

VB give energy, energize, stimulate, kindle, excite, exert, sharpen, intensify, inflame, wind up, strike home, into home, hard home, make an impression.