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intensify has 5 distinct synonyms spread across 3 of its 4 senses. Each sense below keeps its own list, because a synonym belongs to a meaning and not to a word: swapping one sense's substitute into another sense's sentence is how a thesaurus makes writing worse. WordNet records no antonym for it — antonymy is a relation between word forms rather than concepts, so it is deliberately sparse.
Counts are distinct word forms across every sense. A synonym that appears under three senses is counted once here and shown three times below, under each sense it belongs to.
make more intense, stronger, or more marked
“The efforts were intensified”
Synonyms, antonyms and the broader and narrower relations for intensify come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Full sources and licences.
make the chemically affected part of (a negative) denser or more opaque in order produce a stronger contrast between light and dark