单词 | intensify |
释义 | in·ten·si·fy transitive verb 1. < are intensifying our sales effort — Wall Street Journal > < intensify farming on a wide scale — Farmer's Weekly (South Africa) > 2. a. b. < intensify still more the resultant problems of health and nutrition — R.W.Steel > intransitive verb a. < within her own narrowed sphere her sympathies seemed to intensify — McGill News > b. < the drought has intensified and spread — K.S.Davis > < rivalry among the three departments … is intensifying — Newsweek > Synonyms: < in the lustrous air all colors were intensified — Mary Webb > < the depression of the early thirties intensified his dissatisfaction with the capitalist system — Granville Hicks > aggravate, often used in connection with the unpleasant or evil, applies to an increase in seriousness and demand for attention < the external symptoms of decline have served to aggravate long existing internal tensions — J.G.Colton > < the din of its two small rooms aggravated by the peripheral racket that came from the kitchen — Jean Stafford > heighten may suggest a lifting above the ordinary or accustomed < a painter discards many trivial points of exactness, in order to heighten the truthfulness of a few fundamentals — C.E.Montague > < a dramatic incident may heighten the popular indignation that leads toward war — Dexter Perkins > enhance suggests a lifting or strengthening above normal, especially in attractiveness, desirability, or value < the charm of this wild land is enhanced by the presence of deer and the famous forest ponies — S.P.B.Mais > < a blue serge suit freshly pressed which enhanced the impression he gave of neatness and cleanliness — Henry Miller > < the political prestige of the C.I.O. was enhanced by the election — Collier's Year Book > |
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