intensify

1. Increase in extent or intensity (synset 200291064)
   "The Allies escalated the bombing"
   is a type of: increase - make bigger or more
   subtypes: redouble - double in magnitude, extent, or intensity
   same as: escalate, step up
2. Make more intense, stronger, or more marked (synset 200227591)
   "The efforts were intensified"; "Her rudeness intensified his dislike for her"; "Pot smokers claim it heightens their awareness"; "This event only deepened my convictions"
   causes: deepen, intensify - become more intense
   is a type of: increase - become bigger or greater in amount
   subtypes:

   • heat up, hot up, screw up - make more intense
   • fan - make (an emotion) fiercer
   • enhance, heighten, raise - increase
   • amplify - increase the volume of
   • sharpen - make crisp or more crisp and precise
   • heighten, sharpen - make (one's senses) more acute
   same as: compound, deepen, heighten
3. Become more intense (synset 200226992)
   "The debate intensified"; "His dislike for raw fish only deepened in Japan"
   is a type of: increase - become bigger or greater in amount
   subtypes:

   • build - develop and grow
   • redouble - make twice as great or intense
   • break open, burst out, erupt, flare, flare up, irrupt - erupt or intensify suddenly
   • condense - become more compact or concentrated
   • sharpen - become sharp or sharper
   • accelerate, quicken, speed, speed up - move faster
   same as: deepen
4. Make the chemically affected part of (a negative) denser or more opaque in order produce a stronger contrast between light and dark (synset 200575812)
   referred to in: photography - the occupation of taking and printing photographs or making movies
   is a type of: alter, change, modify - cause to change; make different; cause a transformation

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