intensify

Even as the ranks of culture warriors on the right diminish, their zeal seems to intensify.

Instead, they intensify with age, like peachberry wine, and occasionally (like Jesse Helms and Jimmy Swaggart) they grow rank.

As fears of the virus hitting Europe intensify, health officials warn that paranoia and racial profiling may grow, as well.

Amin, whom we met in the park, says that his highs tend to extend and intensify whatever he was feeling already.

Droughts and food shocks may intensify political and military conflict: more resource wars, more grain-price revolutions.

The chattering of a few prairie dogs only served to intensify the great, mysterious silence.

Somehow she imagined a contact of lips would intensify that feeling, might bring it nearer consummation.

Don't intensify the viciousness of the public-house by assuming the place isn't fit for women and children.

But the very expression of the unrest tends to intensify its expression and so increases the tension in the herd.

At times her whimsical fancy would intensify natural processes around her till they seemed a part of her own story.