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disintensifying

disintensifying is the present participle and gerund of disintensify.

Meaning of disintensify

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
    Synonyms:
    deintensify

Questions about disintensifying

What is disintensifying the present participle and gerund of?
Disintensifying is the present participle and gerund of disintensify.

Words near disintensifying in the dictionary

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

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