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Synonyms for intensify
ɪnˈtɛn səˌfaɪin·ten·si·fy
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English Synonyms and Antonyms
Princeton's WordNet
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, deepenintensify, 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, deepenintensify, deepenverb
become more intense
"The debate intensified"; "His dislike for raw fish only deepened in Japan"
Synonyms:
deepen, change, compound, escalate, step up, heightenintensifyverb
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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Dictionary of English Synonymes
intensifyverb
Synonyms:
strengthen, make intense, make more intense
Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated Words
intensifyverb
Synonyms:
aggravate, exacerbate, heighten
PPDB, the paraphrase database
List of paraphrases for "intensify":
intensifying, redouble, strengthen, intensifies, intensification, intensified, enhance, deepen, increase, reinforce, strengthening, escalate, strengthened, accelerate
Words popularity by usage frequency
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#347 | change | |
#985 | increase | |
#2703 | rise | |
#3400 | enhance | |
#3551 | raise | |
#5038 | combine | |
#6470 | compound | |
#7738 | strengthen | |
#9971 | strengthening | |
#13324 | accelerate | |
#15549 | strengthened | |
#15731 | reinforce | |
#26007 | augment | |
#27728 | intensified | |
#29346 | deepen | |
#29947 | magnify | |
#30449 | sharpen | |
#31764 | intensify | |
#37645 | escalate | |
#44773 | intensification | |
#46711 | intensifying | |
#46777 | heighten | |
#55038 | aggravate | |
#55071 | intensifies | |
#102364 | redouble |
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The level of scrutiny is likely to intensify. This will make filing in EU merger cases trickier if you need detailed corporate information on a large number of SOEs, if you think about ChemChina, they may well face a huge demand for information from the commission in relation to at least other bio and agriculture SOEs and then they would have to hope there are not many overlaps.
No matter where this ultimately goes, it does look like its going to land along the Florida coast but its running over warm water and its going to continue to intensify.
The system will intensify as it tracks off the Eastern Seaboard and has the potential to bring another round of significant snow across the mid-Atlantic and parts of the Northeast, there is currently a lot of uncertainty in where/who will get the most snow and whether the major metro areas in the Northeast get hit.
Hurricanes get their strength from the waters that they're passing over, from all of the heat and the energy in the water, and the warmer that water is that they're passing over, the more fuel they have to strengthen. So that's why Concerned Scientists see hurricanes intensify when they go over stretches of anomalously warm water like Concerned Scientists had in the Gulf of Mexico just before the storm hit.
It will intensify. It has worked for them, now Turkey no longer has an independent judiciary.
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