Definitions for intensify

intensify in·ten·si·fy

Spelling: [in-ten-suh-fahy]
IPA: /ɪnˈtɛn səˌfaɪ/

Intensify is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 15 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 16 points.

You can make 174 anagrams from letters in intensify (efiinnsty).

Definitions for intensify

verb (used with object)

  1. to make intense or more intense.
  2. to make more acute; strengthen or sharpen.
  3. Photography. to increase the density and contrast of (a negative) chemically.

verb (used without object)

  1. to become intense or more intense.

Origin of intensify

First recorded in 1810-20; intense + -ify

Examples for intensify

Even as the ranks of culture warriors on the right diminish, their zeal seems to intensify.

He then appealed to the people to intensify their conservation of wheat.

But he had the tact, if possible, to intensify his politeness toward her.

As fears of the virus hitting Europe intensify, health officials warn that paranoia and racial profiling may grow, as well.

The hum of buzzing insects seemed to intensify the summer heat.

In order to intensify his will and concentrate it upon her, he was drawing her portrait from memory.

Amin, whom we met in the park, says that his highs tend to extend and intensify whatever he was feeling already.

Droughts and food shocks may intensify political and military conflict: more resource wars, more grain-price revolutions.

Old age and decay, bad enough in themselves, we intensify by our habits of mind.

Instead, they intensify with age, like peachberry wine, and occasionally (like Jesse Helms and Jimmy Swaggart) they grow rank.

Word Value for intensify
Scrable

15

Words with friends

16

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