intensify

Etymology

intense + -ify. Compare French intensifier.

verb

1. (transitive) To render more intense
   to intensify the heat or cold
   to intensify colors
   to intensify a photographic negative
   to intensify animosity
2. (intransitive) To become intense, or more intense; to act with increasing power or energy.
   Feminist critiques of continuity discourse have become increasingly audible within the mainstream Jewish world, intensifying last year after [Steven M.] Cohen himself was accused of serial sexual harassment. 2019-8-7, Marissa Brostoff, Noah Kulwin, “The Right Kind of Continuity”, in Jewish Currents