intensified
- 1Simple past and past participle of intensify.
Competition intensified as more companies entered the market.
The debate intensified once the new evidence came to light.
Note
One spelling covers both the simple past and the participle, with the y of intensify turning into -ied. The verb works two ways. A thing can grow stronger on its own, as in 'the storm intensified.' Someone can also make it stronger, as in 'police intensified patrols.' Only that second, transitive use forms a passive. The participle also works as an adjective before a noun, as in 'intensified pressure.'
The government intensified its efforts to contain the outbreak.
Patrols were intensified after the second break-in.
intensified is a form of intensify
intensify, verb: To make something more intense: stronger, sharper, or more concentrated. Full entry
- Forms
- intensifyintensifies he/she/itintensifying -ing formintensified past tense, past participle
- Spelling
- intensify → intensified: change y to i, add -ed
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /d/.
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