disintensify

present singular third person disintensifies · participle present disintensifying · participle past disintensified · past disintensified

1. To make less intense.

   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

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   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 philosophy

   1884, Robert Browning, “A Bean-stripe; also Apple-Eating”, in Ferishtah's Fancies

   They may also choose to disintensify, neutralize, or dramatize different types of facial expressions to achieve specific interaction outcomes or goals in their particular culture.

   2012, Stella Ting-Toomey, Communicating Across Cultures

   Synonyms: deintensify