intensate

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/ɪnˈtɛnseɪt/

verb

To intensify.

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Meanings

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

present singular third person intensates · participle present intensating · participle past intensated · past intensated

  1. archaictransitiveTo 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)
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    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

Origin

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

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APA

intensate. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/intensate

MLA

“intensate.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/intensate. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “intensate,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/intensate.

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