intensifyverb [ I or T ]
uk/ɪnˈten.sɪ.faɪ/us/ɪnˈten.sə.faɪ/C2 to become greater, more serious, or more extreme, or to make something do this:
Fighting around the capital has intensified in the last few hours.
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Increasing and intensifying
- -ify
- a snowball effect idiom
- accretion
- accumulate
- accumulative
- add fuel to the fire idiom
- balloon
- bump
- dial
- growing
- heighten
- hot up
- increase
- pile
- rack
- speed-up
- spurt
- step
- step sth up
- supersize
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intensification
noun [ U ] uk/ɪnˌten.sɪ.fɪˈkeɪ.ʃən/us/ɪnˌten.sə.fəˈkeɪ.ʃən/