This word is acceptable for play in the US & UK dictionaries that are being used in the following games:

• Lexulous
• Wordscraper
• Wordosaur

v. To make intense or more intense: The press has intensified its scrutiny of the candidate's background.

v. To increase the contrast of (a photographic image).

verb-intransitive. To become intense or more intense: The search intensified as dusk approached.

v. To render more intense; as, to intensify heat or cold; to intensify colors; to intensify a photographic negative; to intensify animosity.

v. To become intense, or more intense; to act with increasing power or energy.

v. To render more intense

verb-intransitive. To become intense, or more intense; to act with increasing power or energy.

To render intense or more intense; heighten the action or some quality of.

Specifically, in photography, to render more opaque, as the chemically affected parts of a negative. See intensification, 2.

To become intense or more intense; act with greater effort or energy.

v. make the chemically affected part of (a negative) denser or more opaque in order produce a stronger contrast between light and dark

v. become more intense

v. increase in extent or intensity

v. make more intense, stronger, or more marked

"The fall-out from England's dreadful World Cup continues, and the calls intensify for young blood to be drafted into the squad to revive hopes of glory in Euro 2012 and the World Cup in"

abate    fade    weaken    relax   

intensified    intensifies    intensifying   

change    modify    alter   

intensified   

intensified    intensifying   

heighten    intensate    strengthen    enhance    concentrate    sharpen    whet    deepen    thicken    embody   

pine-knot    rentier    shyest    chart-topper    mining-camp    biologic    computer-to-computer    neuropathic    inter-racial    one-shot