reintensify

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verb

To intensify again.

Scrabble 17

Meanings

verbreintensify (third-person singular simple present reintensifies, present participle reintensifying, simple past and past participle reintensified)

present singular third person reintensifies · participle present reintensifying · participle past reintensified · past reintensified

  1. transitiveTo intensify again.

    The lifting or the developed fixed print is done by first reintensifying it with any contrast coloured powder and then lifting by collotape lifter.

    1979, The Indian Police Journal, volume 26, page 24
  2. intransitiveTo become intense again.

    Major initiatives now appear unlikely unless the financial crisis reintensifies, as the bank assesses whether the much-discussed “green shoots” in recent data releases will wither or take root.

    2009 July 3, Matthew Saltmarsh, “Europe’s Central Bank Holds Rate Steady”, in New York Times
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    Not surprisingly, Donna briefly reintensified after returning to the temperate Atlantic, seeing the rapid drop in its central pressure once again boot it from a Category 2 to a Category 3 hurricane on the evening of September 11.

    2020 June 1, David Longshore, Encyclopedia of Hurricanes, Typhoons, and Cyclones, third edition, New York: Infobase Holdings, Inc., →ISBN, page 165

Origin

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APA

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MLA

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

Chicago

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

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