Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who or that which intensifies.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun One who or that which intensifies or strengthens; in photography, an agent used to intensify the lights or shadows of a picture.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun That which intensifies.
- noun linguistics A word or particle that heightens or lowers the intensity of meaning of an item.
- noun photography An
agent used to intensify the lights or shadows of a picture.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a modifier that has little meaning except to intensify the meaning it modifies
Etymologies
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Examples
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January 8th, 2009 at 2: 35 pm using it as an intensifier is less bad than using it as a negation-sign, as in “moral victory”, which means “i lost”.
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Yet another intensifier is the military's handling of rape claims.
The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com Soraya Chemaly 2012
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Is “big” the new all-purpose negative intensifier? ga73 says:
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I spent a year circling my eyes in Sue Devitt's smoky eye intensifier pencil before I knew anything about her.
A Few of My Favorite Things Tina Gaudoin 2011
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Many famous writers, including Mark Twain and many others, have used literal to mean figurative or as an intensifier.
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Many famous writers, including Mark Twain and many others, have used literal to mean figurative or as an intensifier.
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But waiting can also be a powerful intensifier of emotions.
The Next Ten Minutes EdD Andrew Peterson 2010
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Many famous writers, including Mark Twain and many others, have used literal to mean figurative or as an intensifier.
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And just as time can act as an intensifier, so can context.
The Next Ten Minutes EdD Andrew Peterson 2010
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Many famous writers, including Mark Twain and many others, have used literal to mean figurative or as an intensifier.
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