Sentences with intensify
in·ten·si·fy
I i - Britain is intensifying its efforts to secure the release of the hostages. [VERB noun]
- Katharine Murphy Efforts to maximise voter turnout at the coming federal poll will intensify with electoral reforms to be announced by the government this.
- We could hear the wind howling outside as the storm intensified.
- They intensified their efforts to increase sales.
- This effect seems certain to intensify as global warming and other threats begin to impact more deeply on our lives.
- Intensify implies an increasing in the degree of force, vehemence, vividness, etc. [his absence only intensified her longing]; aggravate implies a making more serious, unbearable, etc. and connotes something that is unpleasant or troublesome in itself [your insolence only aggravates the offense]; to heighten is to make greater, stronger, more vivid, etc. so as to raise above the ordinary or commonplace [music served to heighten the effect]; enhance implies the addition of something so as to make more attractive or desirable [she used cosmetics to enhance her beauty]