| 单词 | intensifying |
| 释义 | intensifying (once / 9071 pages) adj The adjective intensifying describes something that is increasing in strength or degree. The intensifying snowstorm may cause your neighbors to rush to the store for bread and milk, but if you grew up with lots of snow, you know there is no need to panic. Intensifying is from the verb intensify, a word coined by the famous poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge. He first used the word in a book to describe the effects of opium — a pain killer which was still legal to buy. He promptly apologized for the new word in a footnote that read in part, "I have therefore hazarded the word, intensify: though, I confess, it sounds uncouth to my own ear." Even so, poetry can be an intensifying use of ordinary language. WORD FAMILYintensify: intensification, intensified, intensifier, intensifies, intensifying+/intensification: intensifications/intensifier: intensifiers USAGE EXAMPLESIt was as if their bodies were intensifying their effort to pull the contestants back to their original weight. New York Times(May 02, 2016) But Donald Trump is fighting back, and he appears to be intensifying a long struggle to protect his brand name here. Washington Post(Dec 27, 2016) Mr. Valverde said intensifying police harassment persuaded him to flee to neighboring Argentina in April. Washington Times(Dec 26, 2016) adj increasing in strength or intensity Syn|Ant aggravating, exacerbating, exasperating making worse augmentative, enhanciveintensifying by augmentation and enhancement deepening, thickeningaccumulating and becoming more intense heighteningreaching a higher intensity moderating lessening in intensity or strength alleviative, alleviatory, lenitive, mitigative, mitigatory, palliativemoderating pain or sorrow by making it easier to bear analgesic, analgetic, anodynecapable of relieving pain temperingmoderating by making more temperate weakeningmoderating by making pain or sorrow weaker |
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