| Main Entry: | deepen |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | make more intense |
Synonyms: |
aggravate, develop, enhance, expand, extend, grow, heighten, increase, intensate, intensify, magnify, mount, redouble, reinforce, rise, rouse, strengthen |
Antonyms: |
lighten, pale, quieten, soften |
| Main Entry: | intensify |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | make more forceful, severe |
Synonyms: |
accent, accentuate, add fuel, add to, aggrandize, aggravate, augment, beef up, boost, brighten, build up, concentrate, darken, deepen, emphasize, enhance, escalate, exacerbate, exalt, heat up, heighten, increase, intensate, lighten, magnify, point, pour it on, quicken, raise, redouble, reinforce, rise, rouse, set off, sharpen, spike*, step up, strengthen, stress, tone up, whet |
Antonyms: |
calm, lower, slow, soothe, weaken |
| Main Entry: | magnify |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | enlarge, intensify |
Synonyms: |
aggrandize, aggravate, amplify, augment, bless, blow up, boost, build up, deepen, dignify, dilate, distend, enhance, ennoble, eulogize, exalt, expand, extend, glorify, heighten, hike, hike up, increase, inflate, intensate, jack up, jump up, mount, multiply, pad, pyramid, redouble, rise, rouse, run up, step up, sweeten, swell |
Antonyms: |
decrease, diminish, lessen, miniaturize, weaken |
| Main Entry: | mount |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | increase, grow |
Synonyms: |
accumulate, aggravate, augment, build, deepen, enhance, enlarge, escalate, expand, heighten, intensate, intensify, multiply, pile up, redouble, rise, rouse, swell, upsurge, wax |
Antonyms: |
decline, decrease, drop, fall, slump, subside |
| Main Entry: | rise |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | increase, grow |
Synonyms: |
accelerate, add to, advance, aggravate, arise, ascend, augment, billow, build, bulge, climb, deepen, distend, double, enhance, enlarge, expand, go through the roof, go up, heighten, improve, inflate, intensate, intensify, levitate, lift, magnify, mount, move up, multiply, perk up, pick up, pile up, raise, redouble, rouse, soar, speed up, spread, stack up, swell, take off, upsurge, wax |
| Notes: | to raise is 'to bring something up'; to rise is 'to get up' |
Antonyms: |
decline, decrease, lessen, lower, recede |
| Main Entry: | rouse |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | stimulate, excite |
Synonyms: |
aggravate, agitate, anger, animate, arouse, ask for it, awaken, bestir, bug*, challenge, craze, deepen, disturb, enhance, enliven, exhilarate, fire up, foment, galvanize, get going, heighten, incite, inflame, innervate, innerve, instigate, intensate, intensify, key up, kindle, magnify, make waves, mount, move, needle, pep up, pique, provoke, quicken, rally, redouble, rile, rise, startle, steam up, stir, trigger, urge, vivify, wake, wake up, waken, whet, whip up, work up |
Antonyms: |
calm, disenchant, dull |