Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary - intensify

(intensifies, intensifying, intensified) If you intensify something or if it intensifies, it becomes greater in strength, amount, or degree. Britain is intensifying its efforts to secure the release of the hostages... The conflict is almost bound to intensify... = increase VERB: V n, V • intensification The country was on the verge of collapse because of the intensification of violent rebel attacks. N-UNCOUNT