intensifies

verbmake more forceful, severe

Synonyms for intensifies

verb make more forceful, severe

Antonyms for intensifies

Word Origin & History

1817, from intense + -ify, first attested in Coleridge, in place of intend, which he said no longer was felt as connected with intense. Middle English used intensen (v.) "to increase (something), strengthen, intensify," early 15c. Related: Intensified; intensifying.

Example Sentences for intensifies

Benedick, reporting to the same tune, intensifies his misery.

It only intensifies the pain and doesnt work much of a cure.

To place white by the side of a color heightens or intensifies the tone of that color.

Not that the Divine Spirit supersedes their human faculties, but He intensifies them.

There are snow fields to cross, which intensifies the action.

He reconciles, while he intensifies, every virtue of domestic and monastic thought.

It only intensifies the bad opinion you have of others,—or of yourself!

We welcome no supposition so eagerly as one which accords with and intensifies our own prejudices.

The memory of the life "outside" intensifies the misery of the solitary.

Sin an element of progress, because it intensifies the individuality.