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Aggravate vs. Intensify — What's the Difference?

Aggravate vs. Intensify — What's the Difference?

Difference Between Aggravate and Intensify

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Aggravate

To make worse or more troublesome
Aggravate political tensions.
Aggravate a medical condition.

Intensify

Intensify is the second studio album by English electronic music duo Way Out West, released on 20 August 2001 by Distinct'ive Records. The album was marked by a move from the defunct Deconstruction Records label to Distinctive, and a change in their sound, from club instrumentals and sampled vocals to a mixture of club tracks and original songs.

Aggravate

To annoy or exasperate
The child's whining aggravated me.

Intensify

To make intense or more intense
The press has intensified its scrutiny of the candidate's background.

Aggravate

To make (an offence) worse or more severe; to increase in offensiveness or heinousness.
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Intensify

To increase the contrast of (a photographic image).

Aggravate

(by extension) To make worse; to exacerbate.

Intensify

To become intense or more intense
The search intensified as dusk approached.

Aggravate

To give extra weight or intensity to; to exaggerate, to magnify.
He aggravated the story.

Intensify

(transitive) To render more intense
To intensify the heat or cold
To intensify colors
To intensify a photographic negative
To intensify animosity

Aggravate

(obsolete) To pile or heap (something heavy or onerous) on or upon someone.

Intensify

(intransitive) To become intense, or more intense; to act with increasing power or energy.

Aggravate

To exasperate; to provoke or irritate.

Intensify

To render more intense; as, to intensify heat or cold; to intensify colors; to intensify a photographic negative; to intensify animosity.
How piercing is the sting of prideBy want embittered and intensified.

Aggravate

To make heavy or heavier; to add to; to increase.

Intensify

To become intense, or more intense; to act with increasing power or energy.

Aggravate

To make worse, or more severe; to render less tolerable or less excusable; to make more offensive; to enhance; to intensify.
To aggravate the horrors of the scene.
The defense made by the prisoner's counsel did rather aggravate than extenuate his crime.

Intensify

Increase in extent or intensity;
The Allies escalated the bombing

Aggravate

To give coloring to in description; to exaggerate; as, to aggravate circumstances.

Intensify

Make more intense, stronger, or more marked;
The efforts were intensified
Her rudeness intensified his dislike for her
Potsmokers claim it heightens their awareness
This event only deepened my convictions

Aggravate

To exasperate; to provoke; to irritate.
If both were to aggravate her parents, as my brother and sister do mine.

Intensify

Become more intense;
The debate intensified
His dislike for raw fish only deepened in Japan

Aggravate

Make worse;
This drug aggravates the pain

Intensify

Make the chemically affected part of (a negative) denser or more opaque in order produce a stronger contrast between light and dark

Aggravate

Exasperate or irritate

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