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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1. Alan Riley:

   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.

2. Anne Schuchat:

   The more we intensify the testing and expand the public health capacity and assure that our hospital capacity and material to support the hospitals is adequate or has excess, the better we're going to be in the fall.

3. Le Drian:

   We have to tackle the evil at the root and intensify our efforts in order to isolate terrorism by drying up their sources of financing.

4. Fawaz Gerges:

   Obama believes that reaching a nuclear deal with Iran could be his foreign policy legacy. The Americans are not looking at the deal with Iran in terms of its regional impact, the U.S. deal with Iran would deeply intensify a new cold war that has been unfolding between Sunni Saudi Arabia and Sunni Saudi Arabia allies on one hand and Iran. It would likely pour more gasoline on the raging fires in the Gulf Arab heartland.

5. Muhammadu Buhari:

   The new administration will intensify its efforts in security, restructuring the economy and fighting corruption.