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disintensify

disintensify verb: to make less intense.

Verb

disintensify (third-person singular simple present disintensifies, present participle disintensifying, simple past and past participle disintensified)

  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 philosophy1884, Robert Browning, “A Bean-stripe; also Apple-Eating”, in Ferishtah's Fancies
    • You know Susie'll have to be told to disintensify her soul-huntin', for religion even isn't an excuse for saying that a man'll become a cockatrice.1927, Sean O'Casey, The Silver Tassie
    Synonyms:
    deintensify

Synonyms of disintensify

  • deintensify

Forms of disintensify

third-person singular presentdisintensifies
present participledisintensifying
past participledisintensified
pastdisintensified

Origin of disintensify

From dis- + intense + -ify.

Questions about disintensify

What does disintensify mean?
Disintensify means to make less intense.
What part of speech is disintensify?
Disintensify is a verb.
What is the past tense of disintensify?
The past tense of disintensify is disintensified.

Words near disintensify in the dictionary

  1. disintegrins
  2. disintegrity
  3. disintegrous
  4. disintensified
  5. disintensifies
  6. disintensify
  7. disintensifying
  8. disinter
  9. disintered
  10. disinteressed
  11. disinteressment

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