Synonyms for intensify
ɪnˈtɛn səˌfaɪin·ten·si·fy

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1. intensify

   Synonyms:
   aggravate, augment, embitter, enhance, heighten, increase, magnify, make worse

   Antonyms:
   abate, alleviate, assuage, lessen, lighten, mitigate, moderate, reduce, relieve, remove, soften

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1. escalate, intensify, step upverb

   increase in extent or intensity

   "The Allies escalated the bombing"

   Synonyms:
   come forward, rev up, escalate, compound, step to the fore, come to the fore, step forward, heighten, come out, step up, deepen

2. intensify, compound, heighten, deepenverb

   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"

   Synonyms:
   change, sharpen, enhance, escalate, compound, rise, step up, heighten, raise, combine, deepen

3. intensify, deepenverb

   become more intense

   "The debate intensified"; "His dislike for raw fish only deepened in Japan"

   Synonyms:
   deepen, change, compound, escalate, step up, heighten

4. intensifyverb

   make the chemically affected part of (a negative) denser or more opaque in order produce a stronger contrast between light and dark

   Synonyms:
   deepen, compound, escalate, step up, heighten

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1. intensifyverb

   Synonyms:
   strengthen, make intense, make more intense

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1. intensifyverb

   Synonyms:
   aggravate, exacerbate, heighten

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1. List of paraphrases for "intensify":

   intensifying, redouble, strengthen, intensifies, intensification, intensified, enhance, deepen, increase, reinforce, strengthening, escalate, strengthened, accelerate

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How to use intensify in a sentence?

1. Norman Mailer:

   The final purpose of art is to intensify, even, if necessary, to exacerbate, the moral consciousness of people.

2. Muhammadu Buhari:

   The new administration will intensify its efforts in security, restructuring the economy and fighting corruption.

3. Adam Pollard:

   Exploration will likely intensify around the Zohr field and in neighbouring Cypriot blocks.

4. The IMF:

   The authorities should continuously assess the adequacy of bank capital requirements and stand ready to tighten them if risks intensify.

5. Kristina Dahl:

   Hurricanes get their strength from the waters that they're passing over, from all of the heat and the energy in the water, and the warmer that water is that they're passing over, the more fuel they have to strengthen. So that's why Concerned Scientists see hurricanes intensify when they go over stretches of anomalously warm water like Concerned Scientists had in the Gulf of Mexico just before the storm hit.