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strengthen, concentrate, Inf. beef up, reinforce; magnify, enhance, enrich; exaggerate, make much of, overstate, overstress, overcharge.
2. aggravate, exacerbate, worsen; accelerate, snowball, mushroom; inflame, add insult to injury, add fuel to the fire or flames, Inf. rub it in, pour oil on the fire.
3. escalate, step up; tone up, give a boost to, U.S. SI. soup up, SI. hop up, SI. jazz up; stimulate, whet, pique; warm up, build up; increase, raise, augment, extend.
intensity, n. 1. high degree, excess, extremity, immoderation, inordinateness, extravagance, magnitude. 2. strength, power, potency, Literary, puissance; vigor, force, energy, determination, vehemence; emotion, animation, Inf. ginger, pep; excitement, enthusiasm, eagerness, earnestness, keenness, concentration, intentness; fervor, ardor, fervency, warmth, glow, fire, heat; devotion, devotedness, zeal, feverishness, passion, fanaticism.
intent1, n. purpose, goal, design, plan, meaning, intention. See - intention.
intent2, adj. 1. steadfast, fixed, concentrating, focused; attentive, observant, observing, watchful, heedful, regardful, mindful, alert; occupied with, engrossed in, wrapped up in, absorbed in; rapt, enrapt, enraptured, taken up with; contemplative, reflective; painstaking, persevering, diligent, sedulous, assiduous, studious.
2. firm, resolute, set on, bent on, determined, Inf. bound and determined, decided, purposeful; ambitious, aspiring; earnest, serious, sincere, in earnest, Inf. for real; thoughtful, solemn, grave; devoted, dedicated, committed, wholehearted; intense, fervent, fervid, perfervid, vehement, heated, ardent, zealous, agog, passionate, impassioned; avid, enthusiastic, Inf. gung ho, Inf. rah-rah, eager, keen.
intention, n. 1. purpose, goal, aim, intent; end, end in view or mind, object, objective, target, mark, destination, bourne; wish, aspiration, ambition, ideal.
2. design, plan, proposal, project, undertaking; contemplation, idea; decision, determination, resolve, resolution; direction, inclination, bent, set.
3. meaning, significance, purport; implication, indication, denotation; upshot, gist.
intentional, adj. deliberate, purposive, purposeful, meant, willful, volitional, voluntary; designed, devised, contrived, Obs. consulted, Obs. intrigued, schemed, calculated, plotted, planned, intended; premeditated, preconceived, preconceptional, aforethought, predeterminate, predetermined, prepense; meditated, studious, studied, considered, weighed; preconcerted, prearranged, predesigned, preplanned, preplotted, predevised, precontrived.
inter, v. bury, inhume, Archaic, inearth, inurn, entomb, ensepulcher, sepulcher; lay away, Inf lay to rest, SI. put six feet under, consign to the grave, Dial. funeralize.
intercede, v. 1. mediate, negotiate, intermediate, arbitrate, moderate; interpose, step in, intervene; reconcile, propitiate, appease, make peace, pacify, meet halfway; act for, represent, involve with, act in one's behalf, use one's good offices; umpire, referee, judge.
2. plead for, sue for, petition for, pray for, plea for; entreat, enjoin, adjure, implore, obtest, supplicate, solicit.
intercept, v. 1. stop on the way, seize in passage, cut off; expropriate, impound, confiscate, commandeer, wrest from, dispossess, possess oneself of; run away with, catch, Football, pick off.
2. interrupt, check passage, interfere, interpose; obstruct, block, hinder, impede; stop, put a stop to,
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