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Intensify   /ɪntˈɛnsəfˌaɪ/   Listen
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Intensify  v. t.  (past & past part. intensified; pres. part. intensifying)  To render more intense; as, to intensify heat or cold; to intensify colors; to intensify a photographic negative; to intensify animosity. "How piercing is the sting of pride By want embittered and intensified."



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






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"Intensify" Quotes from Famous Books



... judicial murders of Mrs Surratt and Henry Wirz, the protracted exclusion of the Southern States from all participation in the general government, and the harsh policy of reconstruction, daily served to intensify. ...
— School History of North Carolina • John W. Moore

... those days that seem like a hideous nightmare to the hoary headed, and the story of which sounds to the youth like a heart-rending and nauseating recital. Yet, it was not all dark, some would say; perhaps not, but the bright spots only tended to intensify the darkness. ...
— Twentieth Century Negro Literature - Or, A Cyclopedia of Thought on the Vital Topics Relating - to the American Negro • Various

... deep silence, and somebody near me said: "The favourite can't be leading, or they would be shouting." Then from the stands came a murmur like bees, a muttering as of a man talking in his sleep, a growling as of wind in a cave. This only served to intensify the silence of a defeated people. One knew that something awful must be happening. ...
— The Pleasures of Ignorance • Robert Lynd

... for effect—to allow silence and suspense to intensify and concentrate the house's interest; then he ...
— Innocents abroad • Mark Twain

... unite the two groups of students in a common grief, this accident, on the contrary, did but intensify their hatred of each other. Among the first persons who ran up at the cries of Sand and his companion was a member of the Landmannschaft who could swim, but instead of going to Dittmar's assistance he exclaimed, "It seems that we shall get rid of one of these dogs of Burschen; thank God!" Notwithstanding ...
— Celebrated Crimes, Complete • Alexandre Dumas, Pere


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