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单词 intensify
释义
intensify
(ɪntensɪfaɪ )
Word forms: intensifies , intensifying , intensified
verb
If you intensify something or if it intensifies, it becomes greater in strength, amount, or degree.
Britain is intensifying its efforts to secure the release of the hostages. [VERB noun]
The conflict is almost bound to intensify. [VERB]
Synonyms: escalate, increase, extend, widen  
intensification (ɪntensɪfɪkʃən ) uncountable noun
The intensification of the debt crisis was hurting the entire region. [+ of]
Synonyms: increase, rise, build-up, expansion  
Collocations:
intensify fear
Record numbers of drones are drifting into the flight paths of aircraft taking off and landing at major airports, intensifying fears of a mid-air collision.
Times, Sunday Times
Analysts attributed yesterday's rout of banking shares to intensified fears about the euro sovereign debt crisis and uncertainty about politicians' willingness to take control of the increasingly perilous situation.
Times, Sunday Times
With medical stories breaking in the news every day, information overload can also intensify fears.
Times, Sunday Times
intensify further
Yet, squeezed between the vagaries of the commodity markets and the power of oligopolies, many are being forced to intensify further rather than farm more sustainably.
Times, Sunday Times
During the next day the system performed a small anti-clockwise cyclonic loop and started to intensify further while attaining a better cloud organization.
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Increasing wind shear inhibited any development, and the system failed to intensify further as it moved southward.
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Like the previous two tropical cyclone, this storm had a peak of 50 mph (80 km/h), and did not intensify further.
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Additionally, the storm had begun developing an eyewall, an indication that the system was likely to intensify further.
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intensify pressure
The mammoth potential awards will intensify pressure on the government to step in.
Times, Sunday Times
Details of how data, some of which identify an individual, are being mined and distributed will intensify pressure on technology firms already under fire from privacy campaigners.
Times, Sunday Times
The disclosures intensified pressure on ministers to act.
Times, Sunday Times
Taxes on the working age population will increase in some form, thereby intensifying pressures on living standards.
Times, Sunday Times
This, combined with nearly a decade of wage pressure and inadequate workforce planning, has intensified pressures.
Times, Sunday Times
intensify the emotion
The extra support will intensify the emotions and hopefully give us wonderful memories.
The Sun
Writing on the road when you're tired intensifies that emotion.
The Sun
How to twist a figure into a pose that intensifies the emotion?
Times, Sunday Times
In each case, the verse form's distancing effect contains and intensifies the emotion.
The Times Literary Supplement
The song incorporates polyphony and intensifies their emotions as it builds to a crescendo.
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war intensifies
The playing board upon which journalists can operate around these groups shrinks by the day as the war intensifies.
Times, Sunday Times
As the war intensifies, the line between the forces of good and evil become increasingly blurry.
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As the war intensifies, adult villagers are recruited into the civil defense force to protect the village border.
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Translations:
Chinese: 强化
Japanese: 強める/強まる
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