intensify

Other forms of intensify

past tense or participle

intensified

present participle

intensifying·

third person

intensifies·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about intensify

What does intensify mean?

intensify means "increase in extent or intensity". That is the primary sense; the word has 4 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in intensify?

intensify has 4 syllables: in-ten-si-fy. The stress falls on "ten". In IPA it is /ɪnˈtɛnsəˌfaɪ/.

What is another word for intensify?

Close synonyms include escalate, step up, compound, heighten, deepen. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is intensify a common word?

intensify is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with intensify?

72 words rhyme with intensify. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.