From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
intensified \intensified\ adjective made more severe or intense, especially in law.
Syn: aggravated. [WordNet 1.5]
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Intensify \In*ten"si*fy\, verb (used with an object) [imp. & p. p. {Intensified}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Intensifying}.] [Intense + -fly.] To render more intense; as, to intensify heat or cold; to intensify colors; to intensify a photographic negative; to intensify animosity. --Bacon.
How piercing is the sting of pride By want embittered and intensified. --Longfellow.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
adjective
1: made more intense; "the intensified scrutiny of the candidate's background"
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
verb
1: increase in extent or intensity; "The Allies escalated the bombing" [syn: {escalate}, {step up}] [ant: {de-escalate}]
2: make more intense, stronger, or more marked; "The efforts were intensified", "Her rudeness intensified his dislike for her"; "Potsmokers claim it heightens their awareness"; "This event only deepened my convictions" [syn: {compound}, {heighten}, {deepen}]
3: become more intense; "The debate intensified"; "His dislike for raw fish only deepened in Japan" [syn: {deepen}]
4: make the chemically affected part of (a negative) denser or more opaque in order produce a stronger contrast between light and dark [also: {intensified}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
43 Moby Thesaurus words for "intensified": accelerated, aggrandized, aggravated, amplified, annoyed, augmented, beefed-up, bloated, boosted, broadened, deepened, deliberately provoked, elevated, embittered, enhanced, enlarged, exacerbated, exasperated, expanded, extended, heated up, heightened, hiked, hotted up, increased, inflated, irritated, jazzed up, magnified, multiplied, proliferated, provoked, raised, reinforced, soured, spread, stiffened, strengthened, swollen, tightened, widened, worse, worsened
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