To cause to move faster; to quicken the motion of; to add to the speed of; -- opposed to retard.
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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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To cause to move faster; to quicken the motion of; to add to the speed of; -- opposed to retard.
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To render larger, more extended, or more intense, and the like; -- used especially of telescopes, microscopes, etc.
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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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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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To raise or lift up; to exalt.
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To cause to burst forth; to eject; as, to erupt lava.
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An instrument used for producing artificial currents of air, by the wafting or revolving motion of a broad surface
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To burn with an unsteady or waving flame; as, the candle flares.
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To make high; to raise higher; to elevate.
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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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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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To double again or repeatedly; to increase by continued or repeated additions; to augment greatly; to multiply.
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To make sharp.
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Prosperity in an undertaking; favorable issue; success.
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To make otherwise; to change in some respect, either partially or wholly; to vary; to modify.
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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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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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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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The act or process of intensifying, or of making more intense.
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The act or process of intensifying, or of making more intense.
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The state or quality of being intense; intenseness; extreme degree; as, intensity of heat, cold, mental application, passion, etc.
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The state or quality of being intense; intenseness; extreme degree; as, intensity of heat, cold, mental application, passion, etc.
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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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In the East Indies, an inclosure containing a house, outbuildings, etc.
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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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To make high; to raise higher; to elevate.
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