All intensify synonyms

verb intensify

• aggravate — If someone or something aggravates a situation, they make it worse.
• boost — If one thing boosts another, it causes it to increase, improve, or be more successful.
• build up — If you build up something or if it builds up, it gradually becomes bigger, for example because more is added to it.
• step up — effecting an increase.
• raise — to move to a higher position; lift up; elevate: to raise one's hand; sleepy birds raising their heads and looking about.
• increase — to make greater, as in number, size, strength, or quality; augment; add to: to increase taxes.
• strengthen — to make stronger; give strength to.
• reinforce — to strengthen with some added piece, support, or material: to reinforce a wall.
• redouble — to double; make twice as great: to redouble one's efforts.
• deepen — If a situation or emotion deepens or if something deepens it, it becomes stronger and more intense.
• sharpen — knife: make sharper
• heighten — to increase the height of; make higher.
• quicken — to make more rapid; accelerate; hasten: She quickened her pace.
• set off — to put (something or someone) in a particular place: to set a vase on a table.
• heat up — the state of a body perceived as having or generating a relatively high degree of warmth.
• stress — importance attached to a thing: to lay stress upon good manners. Synonyms: significance, meaning, emphasis, consequence; weight, value, worth.
• darken — If something darkens or if a person or thing darkens it, it becomes darker.
• magnify — to increase the apparent size of, as a lens does.
• augment — To augment something means to make it larger, stronger, or more effective by adding something to it.
• point — a fraction whose denominator is some power of 10, usually indicated by a dot (decimal point or point) written before the numerator: as 0.4 = 4/10; 0.126 = 126/1000.
• accentuate — To accentuate something means to emphasize it or make it more noticeable.
• lighten — to become less severe, stringent, or harsh; ease up: Border inspections have lightened recently.
• rise — to get up from a lying, sitting, or kneeling posture; assume an upright position: She rose and walked over to greet me. With great effort he rose to his knees.
• accent — Someone who speaks with a particular accent pronounces the words of a language in a distinctive way that shows which country, region, or social class they come from.
• brighten — If someone brightens or their face brightens, they suddenly look happier.
• concentrate — If you concentrate on something, or concentrate your mind on it, you give all your attention to it.
• whet — to sharpen (a knife, tool, etc.) by grinding or friction.
• spike — an ear, as of wheat or other grain.
• rouse — to bring out of a state of sleep, unconsciousness, inactivity, fancied security, apathy, depression, etc.: He was roused to action by courageous words.
• aggrandize — To aggrandize someone means to make them seem richer, more powerful, and more important than they really are. To aggrandize a building means to make it more impressive.
• exaggerate — Represent (something) as being larger, greater, better, or worse than it really is.
• pile on — heap
• severe — harsh; unnecessarily extreme: severe criticism; severe laws.
• enhance — Intensify, increase, or further improve the quality, value, or extent of.
• escalate — Increase rapidly.
• exacerbate — Make (a problem, bad situation, or negative feeling) worse.
• emphasize — Give special importance or prominence to (something) in speaking or writing.
• emphasise — (British) alternative spelling of emphasize.
• exalt — Hold (someone or something) in very high regard; think or speak very highly of.
• intensate — (transitive) To intensify.
• beef up — If you beef up something, you increase, strengthen, or improve it.
• pour it on — to flatter profusely
• tone up — any sound considered with reference to its quality, pitch, strength, source, etc.: shrill tones.