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intensify

verb
/ɪnˈtɛnsɪfaɪ/

Etymology

From intense + -ify. Compare French intensifier.

  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. suffixed as intensify — “intense + ify”

Definitions

  1. To render more intense.

    • to intensify the heat or cold
    • to intensify colors
    • to intensify a photographic negative

  2. To become intense, or more intense

    To become intense, or more intense; to act with increasing power or energy.

    • Feminist critiques of continuity discourse have become increasingly audible within the mainstream Jewish world, intensifying last year after [Steven M.] Cohen himself was accused of serial sexual harassment.

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Derived

reintensify

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at intensify. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at intensify. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

8 hops · closes at intensify

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

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