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• v  increase in extent or intensity
• v  make more intense, stronger, or more marked
• v  become more intense
• v  make the chemically affected part of (a negative) denser or more opaque in order produce a stronger contrast between light and dark
• a  increasing in strength or intensity

• Now her spare narrative has the same intensifying effectparticularly in the final section on the assassination.
• Authorities have already searched Murray's clinics, and with reports that investigators now consider Jackson's death a homicide, the speculation around Murray is only intensifying .
• Now her spare narrative has the same intensifying effectparticularly in the final section on the assassination.

• escalate
• intensify
• step up
• compound
• heighten
• deepen

• de-escalate
• moderating

News & Articles

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• Vietnam arrests third blogger in less than a month in intensifying crackdown on dissent
  HANOI, Vietnam — Vietnamese police have arrested a blogger accused of posting "erroneous and slanderous" information about the communist government, the third blogger to be locked up in the past month in an intensifying crackdown against dissent, state media reported Monday.
  June 17, 2013 - Minneapolis-St. Paul Star Tribune
• Vietnam arrests third blogger in less than a month
  HANOI, Vietnam (AP) — Vietnamese police have arrested a blogger accused of posting "erroneous and slanderous" information about the communist government, state media reported Monday. The blogger is the third locked up in less than a month in an intensifying crackdown against dissent.
  June 17, 2013 - Associated Press via Yahoo! News
• Car bombs, shootings kill 30 across Iraq
  By Aref Mohammed BASRA, Iraq (Reuters) - Attacks across Iraq targeting mainly Shi'ite Muslims killed at least 30 people on Sunday, police and medics said, intensifying fears of a descent into all-out sectarian war. Ten years after the U.S.-led invasion that toppled Sunni leader Saddam Hussein, a stable power-sharing compromise between Iraq's Sunni, Shi'ite and ethnic Kurdish factions is still ...
  June 16, 2013 - Reuters via Yahoo! News

Quotes

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• Dominique Strauss-Kahn in Sunday Herald
  Strauss-Kahn said that the global financial system had been pushed to brink of meltdown because of "intensifying solvency concerns about a number of the largest US-based banks and European financial institutions".
• Mwai Kibaki in FOXNews
  Kibaki, in a New Year's message to Kenyans, called "for healing and reconciliation," but he warned that his government would "deal decisively with those who breach the peace by intensifying security across the country."
• Achim Steiner in UPI.com
  This is a tragedy for the great apes and one also for countless other species being impacted by this intensifying and all-too-often illegal trade,UN Environment Program Executive Director Achim Steiner said in a statement.