disintensify en · VERB
Etymology
From dis- + intense + -ify.
Meanings
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To make less intense.
They may also choose to disintensify, neutralize, or dramatize different types of facial expressions to achieve specific interaction outcomes or goals in their particular culture.
2012, Stella Ting-Toomey, Communicating Across Cultures:You know Susie'll have to be told to disintensify her soul-huntin', for religion even isn't an excuse for saying that a man'll become a cockatrice.
1927, Sean O'Casey, The Silver Tassie:All the same, Of absolute and irretrievable And all-subduing black, — black's soul of black Beyond white's power to disintensify, — Of that I saw no sample : such may wreck My life and ruin my philosophy
1884, Robert Browning, “A Bean-stripe; also Apple-Eating”, in Ferishtah's Fancies:
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| disintensified | Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part | lexicographic | |
| disintensified | Tense=Past | lexicographic | |
| disintensifying | Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part | lexicographic | |
| disintensifies | Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres | lexicographic |
Synonyms
Translations (1)
es desintensificar (Translations)