intensification

intensify | American Dictionary

intensify
verb[ I/T ]
us/ɪnˈten·səˌfɑɪ/
to make something stronger or more extreme, or to become stronger or more extreme:
[ T ]He intensified his training, running 45 miles a week.
[ I ]Fighting around the capital has intensified.

Examples of intensify

intensify
All of these characteristics lead to constant renewal as forms are continually replaced with newly coined expressions that can effectively intensify existing expressions.
Early modern culture was still deeply imbued with warrior values, some of which (including those concerning women) were intensified by engagement with religious reformation.
Opium intensified their proletarianization, it also allowed some to take not only their own but also their family's life into their own hands.
However, as the air raids intensified, the desire to stay in close contact with family grew stronger.
On the one hand, communal competition for votes on the unionist-nationalist dimension is intensified.
Furthermore, in line with the expected pathways of change for intensifiers, very much appears to have started to lose intensifying force.
As the going got tougher, mistakes multiplied and squabbles among the leaders intensified, undermining the troops' tenuous cohesion and stability.
As competition between processors for supplies intensified, processing margins fell and bankruptcies increased, causing processors to demand government intervention.
Parenthood seems to intensify the attachment relationship with one's parents, whereas prior to the birth of children the romantic partner plays the most important role.
In each accompanying parliamentary contest, the winning presidential candidate managed a majority, but the competitiveness of this body has continued to intensify.
Simultaneously, it intensified the labour regimes on the estates.
Being intensified with time, the convection partly destroys the cool skin when a blob of cold water begins to move downward (figure 1, curve b).
Recent policy has left fragmented selectivity intact, when not intensifying it further.
In these circumstances, mandatory public voting is likely only to intensify and harden social divisions, recriminations and misunderstandings.
When industrial restructuring accelerated in the 1980s, labor-management relations problems intensified.
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