1. Increasing in strength or intensity
   "It is visible light from the radiographic intensifying screens that exposes the radiographic film"

1. Make more intense, stronger, or more marked
   "The efforts were intensified"; "Her rudeness intensified his dislike for her";
   - compound, heighten, deepen
    
2. Become more intense
   "The debate intensified";
   - deepen
    
3. Increase in extent or intensity
   "The Allies intensified the bombing";
   - escalate, step up
    
4. (photography) make the chemically affected part of (a negative) denser or more opaque in order produce a stronger contrast between light and dark
   "The photographer intensified the shadows in the image"

See also: aggravating, augmentative, deepening, enhancive, exacerbating, exasperating, heightening, thickening

Type of: alter, change, increase, modify

Antonym: moderating

Encyclopedia: Intensify