Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • To make intense or more intense; intensify.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • transitive verb rare To intensify.

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  • verb transitive To intensify.

Etymologies

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See intense.

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Examples

  • 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.

    IV. English Traits. Race 1909

  • It is uncouth no longer; if it had never existed, perhaps intensate would now have been so no longer, uncouthness being, both etymologically and otherwise, a matter of strangeness as against familiarity.

    Formations. 1908

  • 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.

    Formations. 1908

  • 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.

    English Traits (1856) 1856

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