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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)
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" [syn: intensifier, intensive]
Merriam Webster's
noun Date: 1835 one that intensifies;especially intensive
Oxford Reference Dictionary
n. 1 a person or thing that intensifies. 2 Gram. = INTENSIVE n.
Webster's 1913 Dictionary
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.
Collin's Cobuild Dictionary
(intensifiers) In grammar, an intensifier is a word such as 'very' or 'extremely' which you can put in front of an adjective or adverb in order to make its meaning stronger. (TECHNICAL) N-COUNT
