intensify

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verb

1. increase in extent or intensity (Freq. 3)
- The Allies escalated the bombing
• Syn:
escalate, step up
• Ant:
de-escalate (for: escalate)
• Derivationally related forms:
step-up (for: step up), intensity, intensification, escalation (for: escalate)
• Hypernyms:
increase
• Hyponyms:
redouble
• Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s
- Somebody ----s something
- Something ----s something
2. make more intense, stronger, or more marked (Freq. 2)
- The efforts were intensified", "Her rudeness intensified his dislike for her
- Pot smokers claim it heightens their awareness
- This event only deepened my convictions
• Syn:
compound, heighten, deepen
• Derivationally related forms:
intensity, intensification, intensifier
• Hypernyms:
increase
• Hyponyms:
heat up, hot up, screw up, fan, enhance,
heighten, raise, amplify, sharpen
• Cause:
deepen
• Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s something
- Something ----s something
3. become more intense (Freq. 2)
- The debate intensified
- His dislike for raw fish only deepened in Japan
• Syn:
deepen
• Derivationally related forms:
intensity, intensification
• Hypernyms:
increase
• Hyponyms:
build, redouble, erupt, irrupt, flare up,
flare, break open, burst out, condense, sharpen, accelerate,
speed up, speed, quicken
• Verb Frames:
- Something ----s
4. make the chemically affected part of (a negative) denser or more opaque in order produce a stronger contrast between light and dark
• Derivationally related forms:
intensity, intensification
• Topics:
photography
• Hypernyms:
change, alter, modify
• Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s something
- Something ----s something

• Từ đồng nghĩa / Synonyms:
  deepen, compound, heighten, escalate, step up
• Từ trái nghĩa / Antonyms:
  de-escalate, weaken, step down