Definitions
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Increasing the force or intensity of; intensive.
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- adjective Increasing the
force orintensity of;intensive .
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Examples
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He depends indirectly on Wright's English Dialect Dictionary, which dates down as an "intensitive" earliest from north Lincolnshire in 1877 in the phrases reäl doon good hand and a doon ohd woman
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It is, however, both time and labor intensitive and arguably more expensive as well.
Archive 2007-10-01 hyperdave 2007
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It is, however, both time and labor intensitive and arguably more expensive as well.
T.H.U.N.D.E.R Agents : Phase 1 hyperdave 2007
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At most, the word can in its present application, be considered only as an intensitive, or the like.
The Lost Hunter A Tale of Early Times John Turvill Adams
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The word Yak signifies "one"; and the termination "hi," or "him," is an intensitive which may be rendered in
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Six or seven ruffianly fellows scrambled out; all had enough English to give me 'good - bye,' which was the ordinary salutation; or 'good-morning,' which they seemed to regard as an intensitive; jests followed, they surrounded me with harsh laughter and rude looks, and I was glad to move away.
In the South Seas Robert Louis Stevenson 1872
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English before the latter, and upon the whole it seems most probable that _hugger_ is a mere intensitive form of _hug_, and that _mugger_ is
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