Dictionary entry

Intensify

Webster's Dictionary 1913

In‐ten″si‐fy (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p.Intensified (?); p. pr. & vb. n.Intensifying (?).] [Intense + -fly.] To render more intense; as, to intensify heat or cold; to intensify colors; to intensify a photographic negative; to intensify animosity. Bacon.

How piercing is the sting of pride

By want embittered and intensified. Longfellow.