What are the antonyms for INTENSIFY?
- decrease, help, degrade, subtract, diminish, halt, subdue, hurt, step down, lessen, weaken, reduce, ease, tone, depress, darken, slow, lower, soften, play down, hinder, undermine, soothe, moderate, upset, calm, debase, dull, discourage.
Synonyms for INTENSIFY
- rattle one's cage,
- Widened,
- Toning,
- crank,
- Impassion,
- hit on,
- Meditated,
- creep up,
- deepen,
- spurt,
- overemphasize,
- supersize,
- pour it on,
- accent,
- pay tribute to,
- heap up,
- heaping up,
- concentrate,
- forgathering,
- fetch up,
- bring to a focus,
- waking up,
- rouse,
- elevated,
- blow out of proportion,
- explosive,
- enriches,
- overemphasized,
- Focalizing,
- steamed up,
- growing,
- creep,
- tack on,
- Evolved,
- getting going,
- Massing,
- blaze,
- push,
- Conglomerated,
- run up,
- toughen,
- build-up,
- hot up,
- intoxicate,
- forgathers,
- send through the roof,
- Haloing,
- raise,
- harden,
- boost,
- Focalized,
- overestimates,
- Bestirring,
- snowball,
- sped up,
- light up,
- illuminate,
- pour on,
- lighten,
- tag on,
- rise in value,
- make complex,
- crescendo,
- work up,
- make worse,
- Caricatured,
- sharpen,
- develop,
- triple,
- Innerving,
- step,
- foment,
- tone up,
- go,
- brighten,
- brought together,
- congressed,
- inflate,
- go through the roof,
- go up,
- burnish,
- rise,
- exalt,
- Innerve,
- illuminating,
- rousing,
- hyped,
- concenter,
- buff up,
- flowered,
- aggravate,
- overdraw,
- souped up,
- Revering,
- soup up,
- step up,
- fire,
- multiply,
- hike up,
- toned up,
- rub salt in wound,
- rocket,
- proliferate,
- in spirits,
- goes up,
- stress,
- overemphasizing,
- gain,
- fade (sth) in,
- innervate,
- forgathered,
- exacerbate,
- flare up,
- marking up,
- move up,
- ramp,
- consider closely,
- ask for it,
- irritate,
- upsurged,
- gear,
- focus attention,
- heighten,
- focalize,
- Agglomerating,
- aggrandize,
- zeroed in,
- make waves,
- brood over,
- Caricaturing,
- speeding up,
- goosed,
- buffs up,
- rivet,
- bringing together,
- grow sunny,
- highlighted,
- the stratosphere,
- fuel,
- stake,
- misreporting,
- hot,
- shine,
- overemphasizes,
- over-estimate,
- fortification,
- laid on thick,
- surge,
- get going,
- drawing together,
- drawing attention to,
- moved up,
- rack one's brains,
- inflame,
- scamming,
- rub salt in a wound,
- build,
- underline,
- reinforcement,
- twist the knife in the wound,
- punch up,
- fortify,
- gathering,
- went up,
- bump,
- piggybacks,
- scammed,
- Romancing,
- flesh out,
- stirred up,
- up,
- Conglomerating,
- rack brains,
- temperature,
- beef up,
- rose,
- zero in,
- get to the meat,
- exaggerate,
- bring together,
- -ify,
- mount,
- accumulate,
- pile up,
- wake up,
- bestir,
- go from bad to worse,
- enthuses,
- mounting,
- makes waves,
- center,
- intoxicates,
- explode,
- gather,
- accumulative,
- sublimes,
- pretty up,
- occupy thoughts,
- leap,
- upsurging,
- Overdrawn,
- draw attention to,
- stretch,
- sublimed,
- stir up,
- grow,
- loud talk,
- Subliming,
- agglomerated,
- get on the beam,
- piggyback,
- Innerved,
- build up,
- keyed up,
- slapped on,
- set on pedestal,
- heated up,
- piled up,
- woken,
- stiffen,
- firm,
- forgather,
- set off,
- fester,
- push one's button,
- invigorate,
- explosion,
- pile,
- highlighting,
- fan the flames,
- mount up,
- misreported,
- key up,
- upsurge,
- touch off,
- steam up,
- ratchet,
- stirs up,
- overdo,
- quicken,
- lighted up,
- speeded up,
- compound,
- orbit,
- balloon,
- stack up,
- mis-report,
- glorify,
- fires up,
- accentuate,
- emphasise,
- marked up,
- increment,
- draw together,
- rack,
- got going,
- jump,
- escalate,
- touching off,
- tripling,
- spiffed up,
- overestimate,
- hammer away at,
- teem,
- firm up,
- mushroom,
- highlights,
- shooting up,
- steaming up,
- fleshing out,
- intensify,
- add fuel,
- ascending,
- piles up,
- waked up,
- darken,
- shoot up,
- point,
- speed up,
- focalizes,
- misquotes,
- overestimating,
- Overdrawing,
- strengthen,
- go to extremes,
- whet,
- romance,
- heats up,
- make intricate,
- dwarf,
- fix attention,
- gooses,
- amplify,
- runs up,
- scale,
- woke up,
- Tripled,
- augment,
- under-lining,
- Sinewed,
- reinforce,
- mark up,
- lift,
- goosing,
- enthuse,
- spiff up,
- Haloed,
- en-,
- crack one's brains,
- rub salt into the wound,
- going up,
- giving attention,
- stacking up,
- be engrossed in,
- Sinewing,
- speed-up,
- emphasize,
- fan,
- Romanced,
- enhanced,
- embodies,
- get to meat,
- mission creep,
- triples,
- put mind to,
- converge upon,
- excite,
- brings together,
- add to,
- jump up,
- illumine,
- pump,
- fixate,
- make too much of,
- direct attention,
- toned,
- turn up,
- give attention,
- overestimated,
- shot up,
- misquote,
- fleshed out,
- go better with,
- maximize,
- lay on thick,
- transfigure,
- in flames,
- medialize,
- think hard,
- stacked up,
- make firm,
- jack up,
- laying it on thick,
- fade,
- Riveted,
- lay it on thick,
- increase,
- pay homage to,
- close on,
- put up,
- rivets,
- irritates,
- lit up,
- shoot,
- Bestirred,
- accretion,
- enhance,
- slap on,
- made firm,
- piling up,
- feed the fire,
- piggybacking,
- goose up,
- soar,
- stirring up,
- enthusing,
- pile (sth) up,
- heat up,
- swelled,
- swell,
- bestirs,
- boom,
- spike,
- over-emphasize,
- expand,
- Misreport,
- bring out,
- Intensate,
- redouble,
- bolster,
- elevate,
- fire up,
- going through the roof,
- pad,
- embitter,
- magnify.
Usage Examples for INTENSIFY
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Peremptory military commands this way and that, could not answer the query; the Emancipation Proclamation seemed but to broaden and intensify the difficulties; and the War Amendments made the Negro problems of to- day. - "The Souls of Black Folk" by W. E. B. Du Bois
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For a week the sky remained unclouded, and the sun beat down so fiercely that during the day our garments were soaked with perspiration, which would freeze to the skin at night and intensify the cold. - "From Paris to New York by Land" by Harry de Windt
