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INTENSIFIED
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Made more intense
Example:
the intensified scrutiny of the candidate's background
Classified under:
Similar:
intense (possessing or displaying a distinctive feature to a heightened degree)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
Past simple / past participle of the verb intensify
Context examples:
He was in a torture of suspense regarding the woman he loved, and his utter ignorance of the terrible mystery which seemed to surround her intensified his pain.
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
Now, although I had not received any express encouragement as yet, I fancied that I saw in the two little sisters, and particularly in Miss Lavinia, an intensified enjoyment of this new and fruitful subject of domestic interest, a settling down to make the most of it, a disposition to pet it, in which there was a good bright ray of hope.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
I have always thought that a wild animal never looks so well as when some obstacle of pronounced durability is between us; a personal experience has intensified rather than diminished that idea.
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
Making straight for the steep cliff, where the churchyard hangs over the laneway to the East Pier so steeply that some of the flat tombstones—thruff-steans or through-stones, as they call them in the Whitby vernacular—actually project over where the sustaining cliff has fallen away, it disappeared in the darkness, which seemed intensified just beyond the focus of the searchlight.
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
