intensify

intensify is a 9-letter English word with 6 senses as transitive verb, intransitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: To render more intense; as, to intensify heat or cold; to intensify colors; to intensify a photographic negative; to intensify animosity. Face value is 15 in Scrabble and 16 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

9 letters · Scrabble 15 · Words With Friends 16 · 6 senses

Definitions

1. transitive verb. To render more intense; as, to intensify heat or cold; to intensify colors; to intensify a photographic negative; to intensify animosity.
2. intransitive verb. To become intense, or more intense; to act with increasing power or energy.
3. verb. become more intense

   "The debate intensified"

   "His dislike for raw fish only deepened in Japan"

   Synonyms: deepen

4. verb. make more intense, stronger, or more marked, "Her rudeness intensified his dislike for her"

   "The efforts were intensified"

   "Pot smokers claim it heightens their awareness"

   Synonyms: compound, deepen, heighten

5. verb. increase in extent or intensity

   "The Allies escalated the bombing"

   Synonyms: escalate

6. verb. 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, heighten, escalate

Common word forms

intensified, intensifier, intensifies, intensifying

Words from these letters

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