intensify

English

Etymology

From intense +‎ -ify. Compare French intensifier.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ɪnˈtɛnsɪfaɪ/
Audio (Southern England): (file)

Verb

intensify (third-person singular simple present intensifies, present participle intensifying, simple past and past participle intensified)

(transitive) To render more intense
to intensify the heat or cold

to intensify colors

to intensify a photographic negative

to intensify animosity
(intransitive) To become intense, or more intense; to act with increasing power or energy.
- 2019 August 7, Marissa Brostoff, Noah Kulwin, “The Right Kind of Continuity”, in Jewish Currents‎^[1]:
  Feminist critiques of continuity discourse have become increasingly audible within the mainstream Jewish world, intensifying last year after [Steven M.] Cohen himself was accused of serial sexual harassment.

Synonyms

(become intense or more intense): intensen

Related terms

intensification

Translations

to render more intense

Basque: biziagotu
Bulgarian: усилвам (bg) (usilvam), засилвам (bg) (zasilvam)
Catalan: intensificar (ca)
Chinese:
Mandarin: 加劇 / 加剧 (zh) (jiājù)
Danish: intensivere
Dutch: intensiveren (nl), verhevigen (nl)
Esperanto: akrigi
French: intensifier (fr)
German: intensifizieren, intensivieren (de)
Hungarian: fokoz (hu)
Irish: géaraigh, neartaigh
Italian: intensificare (it)
Korean: 강화시키다 (ganghwasikida)
Maori: whakamarohi
Polish: intensyfikować
Portuguese: intensificar (pt)
Romanian: intensifica (ro)
Russian: интенсифици́ровать (ru) (intensificírovatʹ)
Spanish: intensificar (es)
Swedish: intensifiera (sv)
Turkish: yoğunlaşmak (tr), yoğunlaştırmak (tr)
Ukrainian: інтенсифікува́ти (intensyfikuváty)

to become more intense

Bulgarian: усилвам се (usilvam se), засилвам се (zasilvam se)
Dutch: verhevigen (nl)
French: intensifier (fr), s’intensifier (fr)
Greek: εντατικοποιώ (el) (entatikopoió), εντείνω (el) (enteíno), επιτείνω (el) (epiteíno)
Irish: géaraigh
Portuguese: intensificar-se
Spanish: arreciar (es)
Swedish: intensifieras (sv)