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intensate

/ɪnˈtɛnseɪt/

intensate verb: to intensify.

Verb

intensate (third-person singular simple present intensates, present participle intensating, simple past and past participle intensated)

  1. (archaic, transitive) To intensify.
    • In startling transitions, in colours all intensated, the sublime, the ludicrous, the horrible succeed one another.1837, Thomas Carlyle, The French Revolution: A History […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), London: Chapman and Hall, →OCLC, (please specify the book or page number)
    • Again, as if to intensate the influences that are not of race, what we think of when we talk of English traits really narrows itself to a small district.1856, Ralph Waldo Emerson, English Traits

Forms of intensate

third-person singular presentintensates
present participleintensating
past participleintensated
pastintensated

Origin of intensate

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

Questions about intensate

What does intensate mean?
Intensate means to intensify.
What part of speech is intensate?
Intensate is a verb.
How do you pronounce intensate?
Intensate is pronounced /ɪnˈtɛnseɪt/.
What is the past tense of intensate?
The past tense of intensate is intensated.

Words near intensate in the dictionary

  1. intenerates
  2. intenerating
  3. inteneration
  4. intenerations
  5. intenible
  6. intensate
  7. intensated
  8. intensates
  9. intensating
  10. intensation
  11. intensations

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