Console and Intensify

Console

Console verb - To ease the grief or distress of.
Usage example: the military officer who must console the bereaved at a soldier's funeral

Intensify is an antonym for console.

Intensify

Intensify verb - To make markedly greater in measure or degree.

Console is an antonym for intensify.

Common collocations

effect console effect intensify effect
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