CHANGE INTENSITY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does change intensity mean? 

• CHANGE INTENSITY (verb)
  The verb CHANGE INTENSITY has 1 sense:

1. increase or decrease in intensity

  Familiarity information: CHANGE INTENSITY used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CHANGE INTENSITY (verb)

Sense 1

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)

hush; pipe down; quiesce; quiet; quiet down; quieten (become quiet or quieter)

louden (become louder)

soften (make (images or sounds) soft or softer)

sharpen (make (images or sounds) sharp or sharper)

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