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intensify

English

  1. 🔊 become more intense
    “The debate intensified”
  2. 🔊 make more intense, stronger, or more marked
    “The efforts were intensified”
  3. 🔊 make the chemically affected part of (a negative) denser or more opaque in order produce a stronger contrast between light and dark
  4. 🔊 increase in extent or intensity
    “The Allies escalated the bombing”

Spanish

  1. 🔊 apretar to intensify
  2. 🔊 intensificar to intensify

Similar words

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