intensify
Wildlife is threatened because of the intensification of agriculture and the use of pesticides.
Work intensification can be a difficult problem to tackle because, unlike working hours, it is difficult to quantify.
Most major hurricanes become major hurricanes by going through some rapid intensification.
There will be a major intensification of competition across the country when the law changes.

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Increasing and intensifying
accretion
accumulate
accumulative
accumulatively
add fuel to the fireidiom
blaze
fade
go into orbitidiom
go up
growing
growingly
heighten
inflation
mushroom
ratchet something up/down
re-escalate
re-escalation
reach a crescendo
redouble
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Examples of intensification

intensification
The line breaks in the orthographic version may represent places to pause, but they may also represent something else: a point of reflection or intensification.
As a result, agricultural intensification occurs, relative prices change, and food prices increase as demand for food rises.
Commercial success in these crops, and introduction of new corn varieties, precipitated steady land-use intensification.
Second, intensification of food crops often leads to the release of land, water and labour resources for on-farm diversification.
If agricultural price responsiveness relied less on land expansion and more on intensification, the policy implications of trade liberalization would be more favourable.
As a result of these works, it has been obtained that a shock wave spreading through a turbulized layer leads to turbulent mixing intensification.
This created better opportunities for the intensification of production by the use of scientific methods and agricultural machinery.
He cited technological progress, in particular railways and steamboats, as another major factor in the contemporary intensification of communications.
But intensification of agriculture in forest zones can also make forest clearing more profitable.
The intensification of the wartime provisioning regime between 1919 and 1922 demonstrated the extent to which the retailers' position had been eroded.
The intensification of agriculture over the past 50 years has resulted in impressive yield improvements1.
Secondly, the intensification impact does not operate in a linear and automatic way, but is mediated.
The subsequent sequence, a process of intensification, is realised with harmonic, melodic and instrumental means.
The intensification of family planning activity in 1973 and in the years thereafter is quite apparent.
By providing fast, cheap transportation the coming of trains brought a rapid intensification and spread of industrialisation.
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