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UK
/ɪntˈɛnsɪfˌaɪɪŋ/
]
[ US /ɪnˈtɛnsəˌfaɪɪŋ/ ]
[ US /ɪnˈtɛnsəˌfaɪɪŋ/ ]
ADJECTIVE
- increasing in strength or intensity
How To Use intensifying In A Sentence
- The diplomatic stoush over whaling is intensifying.
- The probe comes amid intensifying global scrutiny of corruption and bribery in the so-called extractive industries that generate raw materials. U.S. Joins in Kickbacks Probe of Sojitz
- With the flavours intensifying as the food simultaneously steams and roasts, and no juices lost or boiled away, the end result is bags of flavour (sorry).
- The US is also intensifying diplomatic efforts to resolve the conflict. Times, Sunday Times
- These pouches are called "vocal sacs," and no doubt aid in intensifying these animals 'croak, which is so powerful that (on account of it and because of the country where they are common) they have been nicknamed "Cambridgeshire Nightingales. The Common Frog
- SO whose side are you on in this intensifying conflict between man and seagull? The Sun
- And, campus security has responded by intensifying their security presence in these areas with some success.
- The light was gloomy even through the image-intensifying sniperscope he was using as a telescope. THE LAST RAVEN
- Behind the scenes, of course, Elvis's descent was intensifying at rapid speed, helped along by a dependence on uppers, downers and painkillers.
- Diseases such as smallpox, typhus, and tuberculosis had dire consequences, and these consequences were intensifying on Britain's increasingly crowded streets.