Definitions for intensify
ɪnˈtɛn səˌfaɪin·ten·si·fy

Princeton's WordNetRate this definition:2.0 / 1 vote

1. escalate, intensify, step upverb

   increase in extent or intensity

   "The Allies escalated the bombing"

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"

3. intensify, deepenverb

   become more intense

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

4. intensifyverb

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

WiktionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. intensifyverb

   To render more intense; as, to intensify heat or cold; to intensify colors; to intensify a photographic negative; to intensify animosity.

2. intensifyverb

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

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1. Intensify

   Intensify is the second studio album by English electronic music duo Way Out West, released on 20 August 2001 by Distinct'ive Records. The album was marked by a move from the defunct Deconstruction Records label to Distinctive, and a change in their sound, from club instrumentals and sampled vocals to a mixture of club tracks and original songs.

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1. intensify

   To increase in degree, power, severity or strength; to make more intense. It can also refer to the act of making something more concentrated or focused.

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1. Intensifyverb

   to render more intense; as, to intensify heat or cold; to intensify colors; to intensify a photographic negative; to intensify animosity

2. Intensifyverb

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

3. Etymology: [Intense + -fly.]

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1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of intensify in Chaldean Numerology is: 6

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of intensify in Pythagorean Numerology is: 4

Examples of intensify in a Sentence

1. Chancellor Werner Faymann:

   One must transit to a Plan B. That means to intensify policies together with Germany to send back economic migrants and decrease overall numbers.

2. Adam Pollard:

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

3. Dominic Raab:

   Today, I've agreed to work together to intensify international cooperation to support vulnerable countries, pursue a vaccine, protect the world economy, and enable our citizens who are stranded to get home safely.

4. E. B. White:

   A poet's pleasure is to withhold a little of his meaning, to intensify by mystification. He unzips the veil from beauty, but does not remove it.

5. George Clooney:

   I think it'll intensify it, of course. But it's never about the media following you around because...if you're a royal, that's part of what you have to do, it's the other versions of it: going to interview people's parents, that kind of stuff that it starts to step into a really dark place...It just, sort of, the press turned on them and...I think people should be a little kinder. She's a young woman who just had a baby.

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References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
   http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=intensify
2. ^ Wiktionary
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Intensify
3. ^ Wikipedia
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intensify
4. ^ ChatGPT
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5. ^ Webster Dictionary
   https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/intensify