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INTENSIFYING
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Dictionary entry overview: What does intensifying mean?
• INTENSIFYING (adjective)
The adjective INTENSIFYING has 1 sense:
1. increasing in strength or intensity
Familiarity information: INTENSIFYING used as an adjective is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Increasing in strength or intensity
Similar:
aggravating; exacerbating; exasperating (making worse)
augmentative; enhancive (intensifying by augmentation and enhancement)
deepening; thickening (accumulating and becoming more intense)
heightening (reaching a higher intensity)
Antonym:
moderating (lessening in intensity or strength)
Context examples
Their analysis shows that condensation around tiny particles significantly increased cloud formation and warmed the surrounding air, intensifying the so-called deep convective cloud systems that are responsible for causing thunderstorms in the Amazonian tropics.
(Tiny pollutants intensify storms in the Amazon, SciDev.Net)
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