INTENSIFIED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does intensified mean? 

• INTENSIFIED (adjective)
  The adjective INTENSIFIED has 1 sense:

1. made more intense

  Familiarity information: INTENSIFIED used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• INTENSIFIED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Made more intense

Context example:

the intensified scrutiny of the candidate's background

Similar:

intense (possessing or displaying a distinctive feature to a heightened degree)

 Context examples 

Every breath exhaled by that monster seemed to have clung to the place and intensified its loathsomeness.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

The researchers found that light exposure intensified migraine pain in the 14 people with some light detection but not in the remaining 6 who were totally blind.

(How Light Boosts Migraine Pain, NIH, US)

If Miss Murdstone were in her worst, I intensified it.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

As he dangled from the hook it was exaggerated and intensified until he was scarce human in his appearance.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The nocturnal visitor was a young man, frail and thin, with a black moustache, which intensified the deadly pallor of his face.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Meanwhile, fish oil intensified oxidation associated with ageing, lowered mitochondrial electron transport chain activity and altered the relative telomere length.

(Long-term consumption of sunflower and fish oils damages the liver, University of Granada)

The weather factors that drive heat waves also contribute to intensified surface ozone and air pollution episodes, said UCI (the University of California, Irvine) professor of Earth system science Michael J. Prather, co-author of the study.

(Dangers of Concurrent Heat Waves, Air Pollution, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

Violence of temper approaching to mania has been hereditary in the men of the family, and in my stepfather’s case it had, I believe, been intensified by his long residence in the tropics.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

W concluded that music intensified the beneficial effects of the hypertension medication on the heart on the short term, said Vitor Engrácia Valenti, research coordinator and professor at the Unesp Speech-language Pathology Department.

(Music believed to boost hypertension treatment, Agência Brasil/EBC)

W concluded that music intensified the beneficial effects of the hypertension medication on the heart on the short term, said Vitor Engrácia Valenti, research coordinator and professor at the Unesp Speech-language Pathology Department.

(Music believed to boost hypertension treatment, Agenciabrasil/EBC)