intensify

Verb

intensify (third-person singular simple present intensifies, present participle intensifying, simple past and past participle intensified)

1. (transitive) To render more intense.
   • to intensify the heat or cold
   • to intensify colors
2. (intransitive) To become intense, or more intense; to act with increasing power or energy.
   • Phoenix and Lubbock are both caught in severe drought, and it is going to get much worse. We may see many such [dust] storms in the decades ahead, along with species extinctions, radical disturbance of ecosystems, and intensified social conflict over land and water. Welcome to the Anthropocene, the...2012 January, Donald Worster, “A Drier and Hotter Future”, in American Scientist, volume 100, number 1, archived from the original on 26 Jan 2012, page 70
   • Feminist critiques of continuity discourse have become increasingly audible within the mainstream Jewish world, intensifying last year after [Steven M.] Cohen himself was accused of serial sexual harassment.2019 August 7, Marissa Brostoff, Noah Kulwin, “The Right Kind of Continuity”, in Jewish Currents

   Synonyms:

   add, intensen, exalt