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Webster 1913 Edition


Intensate

In-ten′sate

,
Verb.
T.
[
imp. & p. p.
Intensated
;
p. pr. & vb. n.
Intensating
.]
[See
Intense
.]
To intensify.
[R.]
Emerson.

Definition 2024


intensate

intensate

English

Verb

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

  1. (transitive) To intensify.
    In startling transitions, in colours all intensated, the sublime, the ludicrous, the horrible succeed one another. Thomas Carlyle.
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