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intensate

verb
/ɪnˈtɛnseɪt/

Etymology

From intense + -ate (verb-forming suffix).

  1. derived from *tend-✻ — “to extend, stretch”
  2. derived from intēnsus — “strained, stretched tight; intense; attentive; violent; (rare) eager, intent”
  3. derived from intense
  4. inherited from intens
  5. formed as intensate — “intense + -ate”

Definitions

  1. To intensify.

    • In startling transitions, in colours all intensated, the sublime, the ludicrous, the horrible succeed one another.
    • Again, as if to intensate the influences that are not of race, what we think of when we talk of English traits really narrows itself to a small district.

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA