Collocations for intensify - verb

greatly
dramatically, rapidly, sharply
The fighting in the area has intensified sharply.

gradually
further

seem to
The extreme cold seemed, if anything, to intensify.

tend to
be likely to
serve to
The reforms served only to intensify the misery of the poorer peasants.

Intensify is used with these nouns as the subject:
competition, conflict, fighting, pain, pressure, struggle, violence

Intensify is used with these nouns as the object:
campaign, competition, effort, pressure, speculation