- What is an example of intensify in a sentence?
- What are examples of intensifiers?
- What is intensifying in speech?
- What does to increase or intensify mean?
What is an example of intensify in a sentence?
Violence intensified during the night. The fighting in the area has intensified sharply. intensify something The opposition leader has intensified his attacks on the government. The reforms served only to intensify the misery of the poorer peasants.
What are examples of intensifiers?
Words that we commonly use as intensifiers include absolutely, completely, extremely, highly, rather, really, so, too, totally, utterly, very and at all: She was so upset. I felt extremely sorry for her.
What is intensifying in speech?
Intensification is an example of adding non-lexical meaning to a word through modifying its phonetic production (akin to how a rising intonation at the end of a statement can sometimes be used to indicate you are asking a question: he's coming?).
What does to increase or intensify mean?
transitive verb/intransitive verb. If you intensify something or if it intensifies, it becomes greater in strength, amount, or degree. I jump, intensifying the pain in all my muscles. Synonyms: escalate, increase, extend, widen More Synonyms of intensify.