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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

... Place, a spot exempt, on all sorts of grounds, from jealous jurisdictions, her friend could feel as "good" as any one, and could in fact at moments almost appear to take the lead in recognition and celebration, so far as the evening might conduce to intensify the lustre of the little Princess. Mrs. Assingham produced on her the impression of giving her constantly her cue for this; and it was in truth partly by her help, intelligently, quite gratefully accepted, that the little Princess, in Maggie, ...

— The Golden Bowl • Henry James

... has power adapted to the need; dauntless valor is often vain against superior prowess. Courage is a nobler word than bravery, involving more of the deep, spiritual, and enduring elements of character; such an appreciation of peril as would extinguish bravery may only intensify courage, which is resistant and self-conquering; courage applies to matters in regard to which valor and prowess can have no place, as submission to a surgical operation, or the facing of censure or detraction for ...

— English Synonyms and Antonyms - With Notes on the Correct Use of Prepositions • James Champlin Fernald

... in the elementary grades. Certain things every child must know. If he is going to drop school at fourteen, as three-quarters of the American school children do, he must be reached in the first eight school grades. If he goes to high school he may there be given an opportunity to complete and intensify the education which the ...

— The New Education - A Review of Progressive Educational Movements of the Day (1915) • Scott Nearing

... they got to the station, he dared not even propose to her the extra comfort of first class, lest he should intensify the alarm he perfectly well divined under her ...

— The History of David Grieve • Mrs. Humphry Ward

... La Calprenede, and the Scuderys when miscellaneous material of all sorts from poetry to prosy conversations was habitually used to diversify the narrative. Mrs. Haywood, however, employed the letter not to ornament but to intensify. Her billets-doux like the lyrics in a play represent moments of supreme emotion. In seeking vividness she too often fell into exaggeration, as in the ...

— The Life and Romances of Mrs. Eliza Haywood • George Frisbie Whicher

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