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  • noun Plural form of intensifier.

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Examples

  • Peter: I wonder whether those commenters here who say travel experience is a prerequisite would say the same about ... balbulican: Peter, we could start a whole thread on fashionable "intensifiers" that add nothing to a ... wideye: Geesh Stageleft ….

    Progressive Bloggers 2008

  • The Collection For the people of A, numbers are intensifiers.

    A Museum of Numbers stephen hastings-king 2011

  • The Collection For the people of A, numbers are intensifiers.

    A Museum of Numbers stephen hastings-king 2011

  • Another interesting example is words like “very”, “really”, and oh, say, “literally”, all three of which used to mean something like “true” and now are used as general intensifiers.

    Some words whose meanings have changed without controversy « Motivated Grammar 2010

  • I asked Dean for the controls just as I adjusted the NVG intensifiers.

    Day by Day Armageddon: Beyond Exile J.L. Bourne 2010

  • I asked Dean for the controls just as I adjusted the NVG intensifiers.

    Day by Day Armageddon: Beyond Exile J.L. Bourne 2010

  • The mix of registers here is typical of Wallace: intensifiers and qualifiers that ordinarily suggest sloppy writing and thinking ( "unbelievably"; "really" used three times in the space of a dozen words; "something like that") coexisting with the correct use of the subjunctive mood ( "as though the driver were").

    David Foster Wallace Thought Readers Are Smart And Tolstoy Was His Role Model 2010

  • That is, intensifiers can compromise the point being made.

    July « 2008 « Sentence first 2008

  • The mix of registers here is typical of Wallace: intensifiers and qualifiers that ordinarily suggest sloppy writing and thinking ( "unbelievably"; "really" used three times in the space of a dozen words; "something like that") coexisting with the correct use of the subjunctive mood ( "as though the driver were").

    David Foster Wallace Thought Readers Are Smart And Tolstoy Was His Role Model 2010

  • Using high magnification and digital image intensifiers, Lachlan and I were able to narrow it down to the west coast of England.

    THE 5 GREATEST WARRIORS MATTHEW REILLY 2010

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