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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

... harmony between form and content, the beauty of sound should be functional; that is, it should never be developed for its own sake alone, but also to intensify, through re-expression, the mood of the thoughts. The sound-values are too lacking in independence to be purely ornamental. Poetry does indeed permit of embellishment—the pleasurable elaboration of sensation—yet should never degenerate into a mere tintinnabulation of sounds. ...

— The Principles Of Aesthetics • Dewitt H. Parker

... mute for some seconds. A feeling of desolation came over her, and it seemed to her that she welcomed it, trying to intensify it, and yielding her features to it. "How do I know?" she muttered ...

— Hilda Lessways • Arnold Bennett

... impossible to overestimate the far-reaching influence of such a Council. An interchange of opinions on the great questions now agitating the world will rouse women to new thought, will intensify their love of liberty and will give them a realizing sense of the power ...

— The History of Woman Suffrage, Volume IV • Various

... them the happiness for which they live; but far from disturbing the happiness of the Christian, which consists in the consciousness of fulfilling the will of God, they may even intensify it, when they are inflicted on him for ...

— The Kingdom of God is within you • Leo Tolstoy

... the Poles, the Finns, and the Arabs, to political freedom are admitted by the spokesmen of the great powers, Great Britain included, or are already conceded. If any partition of Ireland is contemplated this will intensify the bitterness now existing. I believe it is to the interest of Great Britain to settle the Anglo-Irish dispute. It has been countered in many of its policies in America and the Colonies by the vengeful feelings of Irish exiles. There may yet come a time when the refusal ...

— Imaginations and Reveries • (A.E.) George William Russell

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