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Answer for the clue "Action that makes something more intense ", 15 letters:
intensification

Word definitions for intensification in dictionaries

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1847, noun of action from intensify .

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. The act or process of intensifying, or of making more intense.

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
n. action that makes something stronger or more extreme the act of increasing the contrast of (a photographic film)

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Intensification \In*ten`si*fi*ca"tion\, n. The act or process of intensifying, or of making more intense.

Usage examples of intensification.

Other verbal stems already prefix the stem-vowel as a kind of intensification, e.

He noticed every detail as if in a dream: distant, yet with that peculiar intensification that sometimes occurs in dream, every detail etched into his brain with jewellike clarity.

The next stage will be what we already see in third world countries: mass starvation, food riots, class warfare, and revolution that accomplishes little other than intensification of the misery.

Suspected of being implicated in the killing of two left-wing Socialists in post-war politics who were urging a government-sponsored intensification of enquiries into war crimes.

F And so it came about that at Casablanca, the United States and Britain agreed on a major intensification of the strategic bomber offensive, and on giving top priority to the Manhattan Project, as the A-bomb program was now officially called.