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  • verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of intensify.

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Examples

  • Pain intensifies hate, making us want to strike out at something.

    Moe, Thomas N. 1977

  • Jenson Button keeps his cool as fight for F1 title intensifies | Paul Weaver

    The Guardian World News 2010

  • Jenson Button keeps his cool as fight for F1 title intensifies | Paul Weaver

    The Guardian World News 2010

  • Jenson Button keeps his cool as fight for F1 title intensifies | Paul Weaver

    The Guardian World News 2010

  • Jenson Button keeps his cool as fight for F1 title intensifies | Paul Weaver

    The Guardian World News 2010

  • One more thing I've heard today as the word intensifies that Memphis coach John Calipari will be the next coach at Kentucky.

    unknown title 2009

  • The Bosnian has not scored since Bonfire night and the form of Mario Balotelli – absent with an ankle injury for the second match in a row – is likely to become increasingly important to Mancini as the title race intensifies.

    Manchester City and Liverpool need a solution for striking flaws | Richard Williams 2012

  • We'll see how it changes and intensifies, which is what we expect ...

    CNN Transcript Sep 18, 2003 2003

  • Her husband, if he respects her sufficiently, will be able to awaken that which sleeps, and in accordance with the undoubted truth that expression intensifies love, he does "teach her to love" him not only in one sense but in all.

    Sex and Common-Sense 1916

  • Tired Bayern need to dig deep as their chase for three titles intensifies

    Deutsche Welle: DW-WORLD.DE 2010

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