0 past simple and past participle of intensify
1 to become greater, more serious, or more extreme, or to make something do this:
Early modern culture was still deeply imbued with warrior values, some of which (including those concerning women) were intensified by engagement with religious reformation.
Opium intensified their proletarianization, it also allowed some to take not only their own but also their family's life into their own hands.
However, as the air raids intensified, the desire to stay in close contact with family grew stronger.
On the one hand, communal competition for votes on the unionist-nationalist dimension is intensified.
As the going got tougher, mistakes multiplied and squabbles among the leaders intensified, undermining the troops' tenuous cohesion and stability.
Simultaneously, it intensified the labour regimes on the estates.
There seems to be no limit to what type and how much intensified experience audiences will take.
Being intensified with time, the convection partly destroys the cool skin when a blob of cold water begins to move downward (figure 1, curve b).
