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accentuate, amp (up), amplify, beef (up), boost, consolidate, deepen, enhance, heighten, magnify, redouble, step up, strengthen
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This round of King Tides is intensified by two factors: The close proximity of the moon and warmer water temperatures that are common during autumnal King Tides. — Rachael Lallensack, Smithsonian, "Hurricane Dorian Batters the Bahamas Before Barreling Along the U.S. Coast," 4 Sep. 2019 Dorian may intensify into a Category 4 firm, with potentially catastrophic wind speeds of 140 miles per hour, ahead of making landfall. — Ed Leefeldt, CBS News, "668,000 Florida homes at risk from Hurricane Dorian," 30 Aug. 2019 This was intensified by geology courses at Phoenix College and an early job as a Colorado River guide. — Peter Rowe, San Diego Union-Tribune, "Tim Means, Baja California ecotourism pioneer, dies at the age of 75," 28 Aug. 2019 Climate change also intensifies the existing problems in industrial food production, many of which are (in an ironic twist) themselves root causes of climate change. — Amanda Little, Time, "Climate Change Is Likely to Devastate the Global Food Supply. But There's Still Reason to Be Hopeful," 28 Aug. 2019 Many business leaders have kept a low profile as the trade war intensified, for fear of attracting President Trump鈥檚 ire, and in the hope that the threats of tariffs could be negotiating tactics that will lead to some sort of trade agreement. — New York Times, "Business Groups Warn of Peril as Trump鈥檚 Trade War Spirals," 25 Aug. 2019 His frustration was intensified by referee Michael Oliver's decision to chalk-off a last-gasp winner over an apparent handball committed by Aymeric Laporte before Gabriel Jesus lashed home. — SI.com, "Pep Guardiola Slams 'Incredible' Decisions as VAR Denies Man City Win Over Spurs," 17 Aug. 2019 The tenuous plight of the producer has been intensifying for some time, since the height of the profession back in 2003, when DVD sales were strong and the seismic quake of the 2007-08 Writers Guild strike hadn't yet cleared the stables. — Tatiana Siegel, The Hollywood Reporter, "How Film Producers Became the New Expendables: "There's Panic and Confusion"," 15 Aug. 2019 The fear from long ago that the dead could still harm the living was only intensified when dead bodies were exhumed and appeared to have blood coming out of their mouths. — Leah Hall, Country Living, "Fact or Fiction: Are Vampires Real?," 14 Aug. 2019These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'intensify.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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