📖 Definitions of "Intensify"
verb
- 1
To render more intense
"to intensify a photographic negative"
- 2
To become intense, or more intense; to act with increasing power or energy.
🔄 Synonyms of "Intensify"
5 synonyms found via WordNet and Google Books.
| Word | Definition |
|---|---|
| compoundnoun | Anything made by combining several things. |
| heightenverb | To advance, increase, augment, make larger, more intense, stronger etc. |
| escalateverb | (ambitransitive) To increase (something) in extent or intensity; to intensify or step up. |
| deepenverb | (transitive) To make deep or deeper |
| step upverb | (intransitive, idiomatic) To assume or take responsibility. |
↔️ Antonyms of "Intensify"
Words with the opposite meaning.
| Word | Definition |
|---|---|
| weakenverb | (transitive) To make weaker or less strong. |
| de-escalateverb | (ambitransitive) To decrease in intensity or magnitude. |
| step downverb | (intransitive, idiomatic) To resign or retire from an office or position of authority. |
💡 Words with a Similar Meaning to "Intensify"
Found via reverse dictionary — words that share a conceptual meaning.
| Word | Definition |
|---|---|
| deepenverb | (transitive) To make deep or deeper |
| heightenverb | To advance, increase, augment, make larger, more intense, stronger etc. |
| escalateverb | (ambitransitive) To increase (something) in extent or intensity; to intensify or step up. |
| step upverb | (intransitive, idiomatic) To assume or take responsibility. |
| compoundverb | (transitive) To form (a resulting mixture) by combining different elements, ingredients, or parts; to mingle with something else. |
| intensitynoun | The quality of being intense. |
| intensivenoun | Done with intensity or to a great degree; thorough. |
| extendverb | (transitive) To cause to increase in extent. |
| tightenverb | (transitive) To make tighter. |
| energizeverb | (transitive) To invigorate; to make energetic. |
| invigorateverb | (transitive) To impart vigor, strength, or vitality to. |
| widenverb | (transitive) To make wide or wider. |
| broadenverb | (intransitive) To become broad or broader. |
| amplifyverb | (transitive) To render larger, more extended, or more intense. |
| expandverb | (transitive) To increase the extent, number, volume or scope of (something). |
| toughenverb | (transitive) To make tough. |
| growverb | (ergative) To become larger, to increase in magnitude. |
| increaseverb | (intransitive) (of a quantity, etc.) To become larger or greater, to greaten. |
| maximizeverb | (transitive) To make as large as possible. |
| strengtheningnoun | The process by which something is strengthened. |
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