CHANGE INTENSITY

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

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)

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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