intensify

English

Etymology

From intense +‎ -ify. Compare French intensifier.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɪnˈtɛnsɪfaɪ/

• Audio (Southern England):

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Verb

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

1. (transitive) To render more intense

   to intensify the heat or cold

   to intensify colors

   to intensify a photographic negative

   to intensify animosity

2. (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)