0 past simple and past participle of intensify
1 to become greater, more serious, or more extreme, or to make something do this:
As this process of unification and concentration of power intensified, political-economic interests replaced the warrior ideal.
And at the cone tip, laser field is intensified due to multiple reflections, which results in electrons with temperature higher than ponderomotive energy.
Yet these were the preoccupations of nineteenth-century theorists also, only intensified by issues like industrialisation and focused by utilitarian ethics.
Rather, minority problems have multiplied and intensified with the creation of states to replace the regions.
Work on composing has intensified and taken on greater depth and breadth.
When industrial restructuring accelerated in the 1980s, labor-management relations problems intensified.
It has found that this put intensified pressure on the disability category.
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).