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Deepening vs Intensify - What's the difference?

deepening | intensify |

As verbs the difference between deepening and intensify

is that deepening is while intensify is to render more intense; as, to intensify heat or cold; to intensify colors; to intensify a photographic negative; to intensify animosity.

As a noun deepening

is the act of becoming deeper.

deepening

English

Verb

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    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act of becoming deeper.
  • * 1972 , H. H. Lamb, Climate: Present, Past and Future (volume 1, page 408)
    • Further examples of the same effect could be seen in sudden deepenings of depressions over the warmer than normal eastern Atlantic in the 1968-9 winter: the consequence was interruptions of the cold weather prevailing in Britain

    intensify

    English

    Verb

    (en-verb)
  • To render more intense; as, to intensify heat or cold; to intensify colors; to intensify a photographic negative; to intensify animosity.
  • To become intense, or more intense; to act with increasing power or energy.