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Intensify

verb

(past & past part. intensified; pres. part. intensifying)

Increase in extent or intensity. Synonyms: escalate, step up.

Make more intense, stronger, or more marked. Synonyms: compound, deepen, heighten. "Her rudeness intensified his dislike for her" , "Pot smokers claim it heightens their awareness" , "This event only deepened my convictions"

Become more intense. Synonym: deepen. "His dislike for raw fish only deepened in Japan"

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

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"Intensify" Quotes from Famous Books

... plate bristling with sharp iron points; I had the medallion riveted to this plate and then returned it to its place over my heart. The sharp points pierced my bosom with every movement and caused such a strange voluptuous anguish that I sometimes pressed it down with my hand in order to intensify the sensation. I knew very well that I was committing folly; love ...

— The Confession of a Child of The Century • Alfred de Musset

... laws of God and man alike. The sermon failed to convince the hostile and unwilling listeners, whose interests were bound up in slavery, and the only result of this last well-meant effort was to intensify, if possible, the irritation against the ...

— Bartholomew de Las Casas; his life, apostolate, and writings • Francis Augustus MacNutt

... revealed to one's youth—the gladness that comes, not from the rejection, but from the absorption, of all passion, and is like that serene calm that dwells in the faces of the Greek statues, and which despair and sorrow cannot touch, but intensify only. ...

— Miscellanies • Oscar Wilde

... should be ordered to be delivered at the latest possible hour. A single beer keg is an object of consuming interest to the Galician and subjects his sense of honour to a very considerable strain; the known presence of a dray load of beer kegs in the neighbourhood would almost certainly intensify the strain beyond the breaking point. But as the shadows of evening began to gather, the great brewery dray with its splendid horses and its load of kegs piled high, drew up to Paulina's door. Without loss of time, and under the supervision of Rosenblatt and Jacob himself, ...

— The Foreigner • Ralph Connor

... the atmosphere oppressive, Mr. Barraclough, why not go into the next room. It's perfectly clear in there. But don't wait to collect your blankets because we're going to intensify this little lot." ...

— Men of Affairs • Roland Pertwee

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