Intensified
[in'tensifaid]
Definition
(adj.) made more intense; 'the intensified scrutiny of the candidate's background' .
Typist: Terrence--From WordNet
Definition
(imp. & p. p.) of Intensify
Typist: Randall
Examples
- Her whole nature seemed sharpened and intensified into a pure dart of hate. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- On the latter date a full-page article appeared in the New York Herald which so intensified the excited feeling that Mr. Edison deemed it advisable to make a public exhibition. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- And to what degree was her dread of a catastrophe intensified by the sense of being fatally involved in it? Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
- The excitement intensified throughout 1913. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- It denotes an enlarged, an intensified prizing, not merely a prizing, much less--like depreciation--a lowered and degraded prizing. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- The abstract, unconscious smile in his eyes was intensified. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- And in the democracy they are certainly more intensified. Plato. The Republic.
- The smile intensified a little, on his face. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- The nocturnal visitor was a young man, frail and thin, with a black moustache, which intensified the deadly pallor of his face. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- Any fork, no matter what its frequency, can force the surface of the table into vibration, and hence the sound of any fork will be intensified by contact with a table or box. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- He looked at her, and the whitish, electric gleam in his face intensified. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- When she heard he was ill again, her hatred only intensified itself a few degrees, if that were possible. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- By the time that Wildeve reached her name the blankness with which he had read the first half of the letter intensified to mortification. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- Because her faults have been intensified by her place in my father's will, and she is already growing better. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- As he dangled from the hook it was exaggerated and intensified until he was scarce human in his appearance. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
- If Miss Murdstone were in her worst, I intensified it. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
Typist: Randall