Antonyms for intensified

Grammar : Verb

Spell : in-ten-suh-fahy

Phonetic Transcription : ɪnˈtɛn səˌfaɪ

Definition of intensified

Origin : 1817, from intense + -ify, first attested in Coleridge, in place of intend, which he said no longer was felt as connected with intense. Middle English used intensen (v.) "to increase (something), strengthen, intensify," early 15c. Related: Intensified; intensifying.

verb make more forceful, severe

Example sentences :

And must not the vigor, from what we have seen, have been intensified in Plautus?
Extract from : « The Dramatic Values in Plautus » by Wilton Wallace Blancke

This feeling was intensified by the belief that Swift, as a clergyman, was insincere.
Extract from : « De Libris: Prose and Verse » by Austin Dobson

Marion and I are only an intensified instance of what may be done by living together.
Extract from : « Questionable Shapes » by William Dean Howells

The one just received had intensified the effect a hundredfold.
Extract from : « The Film of Fear » by Arnold Fredericks

It was unconscious, this smile was, though just after he had said something it got intensified for an instant.
Extract from : « Heart of Darkness » by Joseph Conrad

And from the ship's new and nearer position this disadvantage was intensified.
Extract from : « Astounding Stories of Super-Science, June, 1930 » by Various

Most notable, probably, are the passages in which he intensified the expression of his source.
Extract from : « The City Bride (1696) » by Joseph Harris

I was lonesome, and the autumn evening intensified my feelings.
Extract from : « The Love Affairs of an Old Maid » by Lilian Bell

The lack of soldiers among them intensified the unruly spirit in the Winnebagoes.
Extract from : « Old Fort Snelling » by Marcus L. Hansen

Even those few moments of rest had intensified his weariness.
Extract from : « Morale » by Murray Leinster

Synonyms for intensified

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