Intensify
verb
To make something stronger or more extreme.
The conflict between them intensified over the years.
Often appears as...
- intensify the effort
- intensify the pressure
verb
To become stronger or more extreme.
The storm is expected to intensify over the next few hours.
Often appears as...
- intensify rapidly
- intensify dramatically
verb
To give additional strength, force or effect to something.
Adding color to the sketches intensified their visual appeal.
Often appears as...
- intensify the color
- intensify the effect
verb
To increase in degree or severity.
His fear intensified when he entered the dark room.
Often appears as...
- intensify the anxiety
- intensify the pain
verb
To make something stronger or more extreme.
The conflict between them intensified over the years.
Often appears as...
- intensify the effort
- intensify the pressure
verb
To become stronger or more extreme.
The storm is expected to intensify over the next few hours.
Often appears as...
- intensify rapidly
- intensify dramatically
verb
To give additional strength, force or effect to something.
Adding color to the sketches intensified their visual appeal.
Often appears as...
- intensify the color
- intensify the effect
verb
To increase in degree or severity.
His fear intensified when he entered the dark room.
Often appears as...
- intensify the anxiety
- intensify the pain
Definition 1 of 4
Pro Tip 1/3Emotional Intensity
Used to describe feelings like passion or anger growing stronger.
Her passion for painting intensified with each brush stroke.
Pro Tip 2/3Conflict Escalation
Shows how disagreement or conflict gets worse.
The debate intensified as both sides refused to compromise.
Pro Tip 3/3Sensory Enhancement
Indicates senses like taste or smell becoming more powerful.
The flavors intensified after adding more spices.
Pro Tip 1/3Emotional Intensity
Used to describe feelings like passion or anger growing stronger.
Her passion for painting intensified with each brush stroke.
Pro Tip 2/3Conflict Escalation
Shows how disagreement or conflict gets worse.
The debate intensified as both sides refused to compromise.
Pro Tip 3/3Sensory Enhancement
Indicates senses like taste or smell becoming more powerful.
The flavors intensified after adding more spices.
Pro Tip 1/3Emotional Intensity
Used to describe feelings like passion or anger growing stronger.
Her passion for painting intensified with each brush stroke.
Pro Tip 2/3Conflict Escalation
Shows how disagreement or conflict gets worse.
The debate intensified as both sides refused to compromise.
Pro Tip 3/3Sensory Enhancement
Indicates senses like taste or smell becoming more powerful.
The flavors intensified after adding more spices.
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Why is being scared so...
This not only intensifies our own emotional experience, but makes us feel closer to those we're with. The feeling of closeness during times of fear is aided by the hormone oxytocin released during fight or flight. Fear is a powerful emotional experience, and anything that triggers a strong reaction
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How to track a tornado -...
stuff that looks like this. The really exciting thing about looking at stuff like this is that we caught this storm from when it didn't make a tornado to when it made a tornado and intensified and when it dissipated. This is the one of the rare data sets that we have out there
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The voices in my head PIPE...
of hopelessness, humiliation and despair about myself and my prospects. But having been encouraged to see the voice not as an experience but as a symptom, my fear and resistance towards it intensified. Now essentially, this represented taking
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Why are earthquakes so...
But these tiny movements are powerful enough to cause deep cracks in the interacting plates. And in unstable zones, the intensifying pressure may ultimately trigger an earthquake. It’s hard enough to monitor these miniscule movements,
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Insults by Shakespeare
which he is doing for the king's favor. This allows you to see that Hamlet is not as crazy as he's claiming to be, and intensifies the animosity between these two characters. Want another example?
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The new generation of...
cities urban planning help them to improve the city centers and for example my latest project in Guangzhou is the next generation we call financial center we try to intensify the activities in
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Rising Ocean Temperatures...
surges continue to intensify as sea ice and glacier melt accelerate and as sea level rise and human displacement intensifies countries around the world in Paris last
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Ants Attack Termite...
with a threat display but it's not going to impress a driver hat the ants penetrate deep into the nest and the residents intensify the warning
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Defending the ant nest...
but it's not going to impress a driver ant. The ants penetrate deep into the nest, and the residents intensify their warning.
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5 Reasons Ants Are...
hand the ants penetrate deep into the nest and the residents intensify their
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Why is being scared so...
This not only intensifies our own emotional experience, but makes us feel closer to those we're with. The feeling of closeness during times of fear is aided by the hormone oxytocin released during fight or flight. Fear is a powerful emotional experience, and anything that triggers a strong reaction
Video examples
How to track a tornado -...
stuff that looks like this. The really exciting thing about looking at stuff like this is that we caught this storm from when it didn't make a tornado to when it made a tornado and intensified and when it dissipated. This is the one of the rare data sets that we have out there
Video examples
The voices in my head PIPE...
of hopelessness, humiliation and despair about myself and my prospects. But having been encouraged to see the voice not as an experience but as a symptom, my fear and resistance towards it intensified. Now essentially, this represented taking
Video examples
Why are earthquakes so...
But these tiny movements are powerful enough to cause deep cracks in the interacting plates. And in unstable zones, the intensifying pressure may ultimately trigger an earthquake. It’s hard enough to monitor these miniscule movements,
Video examples
Insults by Shakespeare
which he is doing for the king's favor. This allows you to see that Hamlet is not as crazy as he's claiming to be, and intensifies the animosity between these two characters. Want another example?
Video examples
The new generation of...
cities urban planning help them to improve the city centers and for example my latest project in Guangzhou is the next generation we call financial center we try to intensify the activities in
Video examples
Rising Ocean Temperatures...
surges continue to intensify as sea ice and glacier melt accelerate and as sea level rise and human displacement intensifies countries around the world in Paris last
Video examples
Ants Attack Termite...
with a threat display but it's not going to impress a driver hat the ants penetrate deep into the nest and the residents intensify the warning
Video examples
Defending the ant nest...
but it's not going to impress a driver ant. The ants penetrate deep into the nest, and the residents intensify their warning.
Video examples
5 Reasons Ants Are...
hand the ants penetrate deep into the nest and the residents intensify their
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Panayiotis Zavos
Greek Scientist
If we intensify our efforts we can have a cloned baby within a year or two, but I don't know whether we can intensify our efforts to that extent. We're not really under pressure to deliver a cloned baby to this world. What we are under pressure to do is to deliver a cloned baby that is a healthy one.
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Isabella Bird
English Explorer
Surely one advantage of traveling is that, while it removes much prejudice against foreigners and their customs, it intensifies tenfold one's appreciation of the good at home, and, above all, of the quietness and purity of English domestic life.
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Sayaji Shinde
Indian Actor
At a time when there is rise in global temperature and pollution intensifying, it is important to face these issues in through clean and green air by planting indegenious trees. This is a responsibility of each one of us.
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Frances Beinecke
American Activist
The Keystone XL pipeline is a threat to our nation. It would increase pollution and intensify climate change for generations to come. We must raise our voices and demand our leaders reject this dirty scheme.
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Milan Kundera
Czechoslovakian Writer
There is nothing heavier than compassion. Not even one's own pain weighs so heavy as the pain one feels for someone, for someone, pain intensified by the imagination and prolonged by a hundred echos.
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Michelle Bachelet
Chilean Politician
The current global landscape is quite different from the not-too-distant past. The process of globalization has intensified, and the world is moving towards new forms of governance.
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Vincent Canby
American Critic
Good fiction reveals feeling, refines events, locates importance and, though its methods are as mysterious as they are varied, intensifies the experience of living our own lives.
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Matt Haig
British Novelist
Depression, for me, wasn't a dulling but a sharpening, an intensifying, as though I had been living my life in a shell, and now the shell wasn't there. It was total exposure.
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Fawad Khan
Pakistani Actor
Men are naturally barbarians, and that will remain forever. The passion, the love, and the lust is intensifying with time.
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Martha Nussbaum
American Philosopher
Disgust is often more deeply buried than envy and anger, but it compounds and intensifies the other negative emotions.
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Panayiotis Zavos
Greek Scientist
If we intensify our efforts we can have a cloned baby within a year or two, but I don't know whether we can intensify our efforts to that extent. We're not really under pressure to deliver a cloned baby to this world. What we are under pressure to do is to deliver a cloned baby that is a healthy one.
Quote examples
Isabella Bird
English Explorer
Surely one advantage of traveling is that, while it removes much prejudice against foreigners and their customs, it intensifies tenfold one's appreciation of the good at home, and, above all, of the quietness and purity of English domestic life.
Quote examples
Sayaji Shinde
Indian Actor
At a time when there is rise in global temperature and pollution intensifying, it is important to face these issues in through clean and green air by planting indegenious trees. This is a responsibility of each one of us.
Quote examples
Frances Beinecke
American Activist
The Keystone XL pipeline is a threat to our nation. It would increase pollution and intensify climate change for generations to come. We must raise our voices and demand our leaders reject this dirty scheme.
Quote examples
Milan Kundera
Czechoslovakian Writer
There is nothing heavier than compassion. Not even one's own pain weighs so heavy as the pain one feels for someone, for someone, pain intensified by the imagination and prolonged by a hundred echos.
Quote examples
Michelle Bachelet
Chilean Politician
The current global landscape is quite different from the not-too-distant past. The process of globalization has intensified, and the world is moving towards new forms of governance.
Quote examples
Vincent Canby
American Critic
Good fiction reveals feeling, refines events, locates importance and, though its methods are as mysterious as they are varied, intensifies the experience of living our own lives.
Quote examples
Matt Haig
British Novelist
Depression, for me, wasn't a dulling but a sharpening, an intensifying, as though I had been living my life in a shell, and now the shell wasn't there. It was total exposure.
Quote examples
Fawad Khan
Pakistani Actor
Men are naturally barbarians, and that will remain forever. The passion, the love, and the lust is intensifying with time.
Quote examples
Martha Nussbaum
American Philosopher
Disgust is often more deeply buried than envy and anger, but it compounds and intensifies the other negative emotions.
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