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intensate en · VERB

Pronunciation

• /ɪnˈtɛnseɪt/

Etymology

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

Meanings

1. (archaic, transitive) To intensify.
   • 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. 1856, Ralph Waldo Emerson, English Traits:
   • In startling transitions, in colours all intensated, the sublime, the ludicrous, the horrible succeed one another. 1837, Thomas Carlyle, The French Revolution: A History […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), London: Chapman and Hall, →OCLC, (please specify the book or page number):

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