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intensating

intensating is the present participle and gerund of intensate.

Meaning of intensate

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)

Questions about intensating

What is intensating the present participle and gerund of?
Intensating is the present participle and gerund of intensate.

Words near intensating in the dictionary

  1. intenerations
  2. intenible
  3. intensate
  4. intensated
  5. intensates
  6. intensating
  7. intensation
  8. intensations
  9. intensative
  10. intense
  11. intensely

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