Intensate

//ɪnˈtɛnseɪt// verb

verb ·Rare ·Advanced level

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Verb
  1. 1
    To intensify. archaic, transitive

    "In startling transitions, in colours all intensated, the sublime, the ludicrous, the horrible succeed one another."

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"In startling transitions, in colours all intensated, the sublime, the ludicrous, the horrible succeed one another."

Etymology

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

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