Disintensify

verb

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Verb
  1. 1
    To make less intense.

    "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"

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de-escalatedeintensify

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"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"

Etymology

From dis- + intense + -ify.

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