- present tense form of intensify (3rd person singular).
intensifies
Example Sentences
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"The way we've incorporated chillies, tomatoes, cheese, chocolate, tea into our cooking, and the way our spices ginger, turmeric, cardamom and other intensifiers, have contributed to world cuisine, is a case study in itself."
From BBC • Jul. 24, 2022
Outrage and excitement, as well as anxiety and doubt, are welcome here, not as impairments but as intensifiers.
From The New Yorker • Jul. 16, 2018
Never before have so many non-writers crashed the public conversation, then struggled to articulate exactly what they want to say, falling back again and again on overblown intensifiers like “amazing” and “incredible.”
From Slate • Apr. 23, 2018
He sprinkles intensifiers liberally: “a very, very, very amazing man, a great, great developer”.
From The Guardian • Jan. 13, 2017
Paradoxically, intensifiers like very, highly, and extremely also work like hedges.
From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker
