disintensify

English

Etymology

dis- +‎ intense +‎ -ify

Verb

disintensify (third-person singular simple present disintensifies, present participle disintensifying, simple past and past participle disintensified)

  1. To make less intense.
    • 1884, Robert Browning, “A Bean-stripe; also Apple-Eating”, in Ferishtah's Fancies:
      All the same, Of absolute and irretrievable And all-subduing black, — black's soul of black Beyond white's power to disintensify, — Of that I saw no sample : such may wreck My life and ruin my philosophy
    • 1927, Sean O'Casey, The Silver Tassie:
      You know Susie'll have to be told to disintensify her soul-huntin', for religion even isn't an excuse for saying that a man'll become a cockatrice.
    • 2012, Stella Ting-Toomey, Communicating Across Cultures:
      They may also choose to disintensify, neutralize, or dramatize different types of facial expressions to achieve specific interaction outcomes or goals in their particular culture.
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