to intensify
2
6.8
- verb
- /ɪnˈtɛnsɪfaɪ/
- Specialized
:
intensificar
- Adjust the exposure time to intensify the contrast in the developed film.
- intensifying screen
- intensify the image
Examples
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To create a striking image, you should intensify the dark areas of the photograph.
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Using a higher contrast filter will intensify the differences between light and shadow.
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To produce bright spots, the grid voltage is raised and the electron beam intensifies.
Academic text (1999) -
When it strikes the bright soil of Providence Canyon, the light intensifies.
Fiction book (1998) -
The Puget Sound Clean Air Agency has hired eight more inspectors to check chimneys for smoke and intensify enforcement measures.
Blog text (22) -
The addition of chlorhexidine to alcohol is known to intensify its bactericidal effects (Elston, 2007).
Academic text (2010) -
The lines of the subject are dark and strong, and the light skimming over the subject's face intensifies the beard, scars, and blemishes in the skin.
Academic text (2008) -
From D. W. Griffith's "switchbacks" onwards, cross-cutting has been used in cinema to intensify narrative suspense and heighten spectator excitement.
Academic text (2009)
Synonyms
424
4.0
Make something better or more attractive
76
4.1
To make a feeling, effect or situation stronger
76
3.0
Make a quality or detail easier to notice
63
3.3
Make or become less bright, for example a room
52
5.3
To make something bigger by adding more to it
44
4.1
To make something larger, stronger, or more important
35
2.3
Become or make something less runny
27
6.0
Make a part of something more noticeable
8
2.7
Make something have a greater distance from top to bottom
1
6.9
To make something more full of buildings, people or material
Antonyms
How Dense
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Intensify comes from the parts in- meaning 'in' and tens meaning 'stretch', like in tension and tense. In photography, to intensify is to make the dark areas darker or stronger, so the light and dark parts stand out more.