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Intensify

To render more intense; as, to intensify heat or cold; to intensify colors; to intensify a photographic negative; to intensify animosity.

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Manner of action 14

Accelerate 76% connected

To cause to move faster; to quicken the motion of; to add to the speed of; -- opposed to retard.

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Amplify 76% connected

To render larger, more extended, or more intense, and the like; -- used especially of telescopes, microscopes, etc.

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Build 76% connected

To erect or construct, as an edifice or fabric of any kind; to form by uniting materials into a regular structure; to fabricate; to make; to raise.

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Condense 76% connected

To make more close, compact, or dense; to compress or concentrate into a smaller compass; to consolidate; to abridge; to epitomize.

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Enhance 76% connected

To raise or lift up; to exalt.

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Erupt 76% connected

To cause to burst forth; to eject; as, to erupt lava.

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Fan 76% connected

An instrument used for producing artificial currents of air, by the wafting or revolving motion of a broad surface

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Flare 76% connected

To burn with an unsteady or waving flame; as, the candle flares.

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Heighten 76% connected

To make high; to raise higher; to elevate.

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Quicken 76% connected

To make alive; to vivify; to revive or resuscitate, as from death or an inanimate state; hence, to excite; to, stimulate; to incite.

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Raise 76% connected

To cause to rise; to bring from a lower to a higher place; to lift upward; to elevate; to heave; as, to raise a stone or weight.

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Redouble 76% connected

To double again or repeatedly; to increase by continued or repeated additions; to augment greatly; to multiply.

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Sharpen 76% connected

To make sharp.

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Speed 76% connected

Prosperity in an undertaking; favorable issue; success.

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Broader term 4

Alter 76% connected

To make otherwise; to change in some respect, either partially or wholly; to vary; to modify.

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Change 76% connected

To alter; to make different; to cause to pass from one state to another; as, to change the position, character, or appearance of a thing; to change t…

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Increase 76% connected

To become greater or more in size, quantity, number, degree, value, intensity, power, authority, reputation, wealth; to grow; to augment; to advance;…

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Modify 76% connected

To change somewhat the form or qualities of; to alter somewhat; as, to modify a contrivance adapted to some mechanical purpose; to modify the terms o…

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Derivationally related 4

Intensification 74% connected

The act or process of intensifying, or of making more intense.

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Intensification 74% connected

The act or process of intensifying, or of making more intense.

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Intensity 74% connected

The state or quality of being intense; intenseness; extreme degree; as, intensity of heat, cold, mental application, passion, etc.

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Intensity 74% connected

The state or quality of being intense; intenseness; extreme degree; as, intensity of heat, cold, mental application, passion, etc.

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Causes 1

Deepen 72% connected

To make deep or deeper; to increase the depth of; to sink lower; as, to deepen a well or a channel.

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Synonym 3

Compound 92% connected

In the East Indies, an inclosure containing a house, outbuildings, etc.

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Deepen 92% connected

To make deep or deeper; to increase the depth of; to sink lower; as, to deepen a well or a channel.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Heighten 92% connected

To make high; to raise higher; to elevate.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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