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English Dictionary: intensifier by the DICT Development Group
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
intensifier
n
  1. a modifier that has little meaning except to intensify the meaning it modifies; "`up' in `finished up' is an intensifier"; "`honestly' in `I honestly don't know' is an intensifier"
    Synonym(s): intensifier, intensive
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Intensifier \In*ten"si*fi`er\, n.
      One who or that which intensifies or strengthens; in
      photography, an agent used to intensify the lights or shadows
      of a picture.
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