If you ~ something, you increase it or increase its intensity.
He urged donors to ~ their efforts to send aid to Somalia...
= increase
PHRASAL VERB: V P n (not pron)
If you ~ something, you increase it or increase its intensity.
He urged donors to ~ their efforts to send aid to Somalia...
= increase
PHRASAL VERB: V P n (not pron)
Collins COBUILD. Толковый словарь английского языка для изучающих язык Коллинз COBUILD (международная база данных языков Бирмингемского университета) . 2012