Intensify
[ɪn'tensɪfaɪ] or [ɪn'tɛnsɪfaɪ]
Definition
(verb.) become more intense; 'The debate intensified'; 'His dislike for raw fish only deepened in Japan'.
(verb.) 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'.
(verb.) make the chemically affected part of (a negative) denser or more opaque in order produce a stronger contrast between light and dark.
Editor: Olaf--From WordNet
Definition
(v. t.) To render more intense; as, to intensify heat or cold; to intensify colors; to intensify a photographic negative; to intensify animosity.
(v. i.) To become intense, or more intense; to act with increasing power or energy.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
v. a. Strengthen, make intense, make more intense.
Checker: Mario
Examples
- They wanted to intensify and universalize property. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- His agents did much to intensify the popular suspicion of the king. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- With every development of speech it became possible to intensify and develop the tradition of tabus and restraints and ceremonies. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Men will unify only to intensify the search for knowledge and power, and live as ever for new occasions. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- The vibrations of the fork are transmitted to the table top and throw it into vibrations similar to its own, and these additional vibrations intensify the original sound. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- Her whole nature seemed sharpened and intensified into a pure dart of hate. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- On the latter date a full-page article appeared in the New York Herald which so intensified the excited feeling that Mr. Edison deemed it advisable to make a public exhibition. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- And to what degree was her dread of a catastrophe intensified by the sense of being fatally involved in it? Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
- The excitement intensified throughout 1913. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- It denotes an enlarged, an intensified prizing, not merely a prizing, much less--like depreciation--a lowered and degraded prizing. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- The abstract, unconscious smile in his eyes was intensified. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- And in the democracy they are certainly more intensified. Plato. The Republic.
- By and by the beadle comes out, once more intensifying the sensation, which has rather languished in the interval. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- Currency was dislocated everywhere, but private enterprise was busy buying and selling francs or marks and intensifying the trouble. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- The important step in liquefying air cheaply and on a large scale was accomplished by the discovery of what is known as the _self-intensifying_ action. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- This so intensifies his dudgeon that for five minutes he is in an ill humour. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
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