(1) Increase in extent or intensity.
(2) Make more intense, stronger, or more marked.
(3) Become more intense.
(4) Make the chemically affected part of (a negative.
(5) Make more intense.
(6) stronger.
(7) or more marked.
(8) Make the chemically affected part of (a negative) denser or more opaque in order produce a stronger contrast between light and dark.
(9) Make more forceful.
(10) Severe.
(1) The transatlantic rivalry that has already begun will inevitably intensify .
(2) A rush of warmth flowed through his body, and it quickly began to intensify , growing searingly hot.
(3) Analysts predict that US sanctions against Iraq will intensify and that a military campaign cannot be ruled out.
(4) The dispute began to intensify
(5) The researchers say that increasing the amount of zirconium may intensify the color.
(6) During the following month the pain in her arm began to intensify .
(7) Labor is set to intensify attacks on housing affordability if interest rates go up on Wednesday.
(8) To intensify the competition there will be status tables visible to everyone in an organisation.
(9) Gradually the relationship began to intensify and, in 1991, they married.
(10) The place to be these days is in one of the accession countries, as the focus on EU enlargement begins to intensify .
(11) This competition is intensifying with new countries entering the race for these people.
(12) The policy in this area will be based on intensification and extension of the tax base.
(13) This intensifies the competition among workers trying to get work, and lowers wages.
(14) Card companies have been cutting interest rates to attract new business as competition intensifies .
(15) The Norwegian side is also interested in intensifying bilateral military cooperation with Russia.
(16) And they did it at a time when competition was intensifying on a global scale.
(17) As competition among companies intensifies , firms adopt aggressive marketing strategies to attract patients.
(18) To think that an intensification will improve things is so absurd as to defy analysis.
(19) As the competition intensifies to excel in information technology, the division will likely widen.
(20) He added that for Irish rail services to develop there must an intensification , not a downgrading of operations.
escalate
deepen
abate
moderate
De-escalate
Calm
Lower
Slow
Soothe
Weaken