[
UK
/ɪntˈɛnsɪfˌaɪə/
]
NOUN
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a modifier that has little meaning except to intensify the meaning it modifies
`up' in `finished up' is an intensifier
`honestly' in `I honestly don't know' is an intensifier
How To Use intensifier In A Sentence
- Flavor intensifiers are being tested as a way to promote weight loss and an alternative diet.
- `honestly' in `I honestly don't know' is an intensifier
- For each mouse, the gain of the light intensifier was kept constant during all the measurements.
- Therefore, the people, far from figuring as the subject of politics, serve as intensifier of Bacon's charismatic leadership.
- It belongs to the class that grammarians call intensifiers.
- In the phrases 'an extremely large man' and 'I strongly object', 'extremely' and 'strongly' are both intensifiers.
- January 8th, 2009 at 2: 35 pm using it as an intensifier is less bad than using it as a negation-sign, as in “moral victory”, which means “i lost”. Matthew Yglesias » Lacking in Prosal Clarity
- Is it anything more than an intensifier of no relevant constitutional content, Mr Young?
- Then too, the participles of verbs with intensifier un - don't generally permit stative readings.
- Layout drawings of an intensifier vidicon are presented.