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CHANGE INTENSITY
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I. (verb)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Increase or decrease in intensity
Classified under:
Verbs of seeing, hearing, feeling
Hypernyms (to "change intensity" is one way to...):
alter; change; modify (cause to change; make different; cause a transformation)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "change intensity"):
dim; dip (switch (a car's headlights) from a higher to a lower beam)
hush; pipe down; quiesce; quiet; quiet down; quieten (become quiet or quieter)
louden (become louder)
soften (make (images or sounds) soft or softer)
sharpen (make (images or sounds) sharp or sharper)
Sentence frames:
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