Meaning & use
intensify
To become greater in strength, degree, or extreme, or to make something so.
See it in a sentence
The storm is expected to intensify overnight before moving out to sea.
Police intensified their search after new evidence emerged.
A note on using this word
Intensify works both transitively (to intensify something) and intransitively (something intensifies on its own).
Words with a similar meaning
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Words with an opposite meaning
easediminish
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