intensen
verbUS, UK /ɪnˈtɛn.sən/
Etymology From intense + -en.
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Rare To grow or become more intense; intensify
- By the last trip, suddenly and almost without my being aware of it, the sea becomes its own lure: a refreshing break from the intensening heat of August.1973, The School Counselor, volume 21, page 142:
- As the fight intensened the sky seemed to turn an orange-yellow and black smoke rose into the air.2011, Ricky Spain, Jr., The Protectors, page 120:
1 more example
- Punctually as we stand-to about 3 a.m. hark! and their thin sweet voice intensening with the growing light 'droppeth as the gentle rain from Heaven upon the place beneath'.2016, John Lewis-Stempel, Where Poppies Blow: