intensifier

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Other operators might be "even" as an intensifier, "in the name of Thy Son" (its automaticity marked by the fact that people use it in situations where they are not speaking of the son of anyone present), "by the same sign", "with a vote of thanks," "I would be ungrateful if," "harm or accident," "nourish and strengthen," (alt. "do us the good we need"), "dear, kind and gracious," and "so very."

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  1. noun Grammar See intensive.

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  • I think Phil's question was very insightful because the ever-popular like quotative is also an intensifier, and in fact all is even more common in the all like compound.
  • Without the image intensifier, the surface was colorless, a pale ghostly glistening in the starlight, with the Sun so small he could have covered it with the head of a pin. —  AnalogSFF,January-February2008
  • He couldn't quite make it out, until he realized his image intensifier was off, and turned it on. —  AnalogSFF,January-February2008
  • Specialised Imaging Ltd. have introduced the new SIL-2 family of high performance, gated image intensifier systems to improve the sensitivity, gating time and spectral response and scope of operation of both high-speed video and ultra-high-speed framing cameras. —  optics.org all content
  • His favorite intensifier was reproduced in many newspapers and Internet sites with dashes as —  Vox Verax
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/ɪnˈtɛnsɪfaɪər/
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