Synonyms for intensify
ɪnˈtɛn səˌfaɪin·ten·si·fy

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1. intensify

   Synonyms:
   aggravate, augment, embitter, enhance, heighten, increase, magnify, make worse

   Antonyms:
   abate, alleviate, assuage, lessen, lighten, mitigate, moderate, reduce, relieve, remove, soften

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1. escalate, intensify, step upverb

   increase in extent or intensity

   "The Allies escalated the bombing"

   Synonyms:
   come forward, rev up, escalate, compound, step to the fore, come to the fore, step forward, heighten, come out, step up, deepen

2. intensify, compound, heighten, deepenverb

   make more intense, stronger, or more marked

   "The efforts were intensified", "Her rudeness intensified his dislike for her"; "Pot smokers claim it heightens their awareness"; "This event only deepened my convictions"

   Synonyms:
   change, sharpen, enhance, escalate, compound, rise, step up, heighten, raise, combine, deepen

3. intensify, deepenverb

   become more intense

   "The debate intensified"; "His dislike for raw fish only deepened in Japan"

   Synonyms:
   deepen, change, compound, escalate, step up, heighten

4. intensifyverb

   make the chemically affected part of (a negative) denser or more opaque in order produce a stronger contrast between light and dark

   Synonyms:
   deepen, compound, escalate, step up, heighten

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1. intensifyverb

   Synonyms:
   strengthen, make intense, make more intense

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1. intensifyverb

   Synonyms:
   aggravate, exacerbate, heighten

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1. List of paraphrases for "intensify":

   intensifying, redouble, strengthen, intensifies, intensification, intensified, enhance, deepen, increase, reinforce, strengthening, escalate, strengthened, accelerate

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How to use intensify in a sentence?

1. Yilmaz Esmer:

   It will intensify. It has worked for them, now Turkey no longer has an independent judiciary.

2. Samantha Power:

   Efforts to deny justice only intensify the pain of the victims' families, who have already endured more than any of us can fathom.

3. Turkish Foreign Minister Feridun Sinirlioglu:

   We have long continued air operations in that region with the United States ... We have certain plans to terminate the Daesh presence on our border. Once these plans are finalised, our operations will intensify. You will see this in the coming days.

4. Central Valley.Despite Birx:

   Although we're seeing improvements in some of the red states and some of the states have actually moved from being in a red category -- that was more than 10 % test positivity -- to under 10 %, Kentucky, Tennessee and Virginia moved back into the yellow states status, their work needs to continue to intensify to continue to bring down case counts.

5. The FARC:

   Common sense indicates that there is no coherence between the words that exalt the ceasefire and those that order to intensify the war.