--- title: I — The English dictionary with trees and pragmatics · page 28 description: The 831 words of the English dictionary under I, every meaning for a pupil and every example with its dependency tree and pragmatics. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/english/I/page/28/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [dictionaries](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/) / [English dictionary](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/english/) / I # I — The English dictionary · page 28 [A](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/english/A/) · [B](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/english/B/) · [C](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/english/C/) · [D](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/english/D/) · 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meaning 1:* Whole and not damaged or broken; with nothing missing.[↗](../../intact/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 2:* Still the same as before, not harmed or changed (her confidence was intact).[↗](../../intact/#m2 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* The egg was still intact after the fall.[↗](../../intact/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · The parcel arrived intact, with nothing broken.[↗](../../intact/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · After the storm, our tent stayed intact.[↗](../../intact/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") · The old bridge is still intact after hundreds of floods.[↗](../../intact/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") · Keep the seal intact until you buy the jar.[↗](../../intact/#x5 "tree and pragmatics") · His good mood remained intact all day.[↗](../../intact/#x6 "tree and pragmatics") · Only one vase came out of the box intact.[↗](../../intact/#x7 "tree and pragmatics") · These files may be used for any non-commercial purpose, provided this notice of attribution is left intact in all copies.[↗](../../intact/#x8 "tree and pragmatics") (Sefer Yetzirah, Kalisch 1877)[↗](../../intact/#x8 "tree and pragmatics") **intake** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* Intake is the amount of something you take into your body, like food, water or air.[↗](../../intake/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 2:* An intake is the group of new people who join a school, college, job or the army at one time.[↗](../../intake/#m2 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 3:* An intake is a place or opening where water, air or fuel goes into a pipe or machine.[↗](../../intake/#m3 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 4:* An intake of breath is a quick breath in, from surprise or shock.[↗](../../intake/#m4 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* Try to cut down your sugar intake.[↗](../../intake/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · Your water intake should go up when it's hot.[↗](../../intake/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · This year's intake at our school is 60 children.[↗](../../intake/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") · There was a sharp intake of breath when the vase fell.[↗](../../intake/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") · The engine's air intake was blocked.[↗](../../intake/#x5 "tree and pragmatics") · The recommended daily intake of salt is less than 6 grams for adults.[↗](../../intake/#x6 "tree and pragmatics") **intangible** — *In Jewish tradition, meaning 1:* Not able to be touched; something you cannot hold, like air or an idea.[↗](../../intangible/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* He hewed, as it were, immense column or colossal pillars, out of the intangible air, and from the empty space.[↗](../../intangible/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") (Sefer Yetzirah, Westcott 1887)[↗](../../intangible/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · He created a reality out of nothing, called the nonentity into existence and hewed, as it were, colossal pillars from intangible air.[↗](../../intangible/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") (Sefer Yetzirah, Kalisch 1877)[↗](../../intangible/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · "He formed existence out of void, something out of nothing, and He hewed large stones out of- intangible air, thus, twenty- two in number, one in sj)irit."'[↗](../../intangible/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") (Mordell, The Origin of Letters and Numerals according to Sefer Yetzirah (1914))[↗](../../intangible/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") **integer** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* (maths) A whole number that can be positive, negative or zero, with no fraction or decimal part: …[↗](../../integer/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") −3, −2, −1, 0, 1, 2, 3 ….[↗](../../integer/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* 5, 0 and −7 are all integers.[↗](../../integer/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · 3.5 is not an integer.[↗](../../integer/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · Round 4.6 to the nearest integer: the answer is 5.[↗](../../integer/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") · Find two consecutive integers that add up to 15: 7 and 8.[↗](../../integer/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") · The temperature was −4, a negative integer.[↗](../../integer/#x5 "tree and pragmatics") · List the integers between −2 and 2: −1, 0, 1.[↗](../../integer/#x6 "tree and pragmatics") **integral** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* Integral means necessary and important as a part of a whole: you cannot have the whole without it.[↗](../../integral/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 2:* Integral also means built in, made as one piece with something.[↗](../../integral/#m2 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 3:* (maths, advanced) An integral is a calculation in calculus that finds things like the area under a curve.[↗](../../integral/#m3 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* Practice is an integral part of learning music.[↗](../../integral/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · She is an integral member of the choir.[↗](../../integral/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · The bike has an integral lock.[↗](../../integral/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") · Water is integral to life.[↗](../../integral/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") · In calculus, an integral finds the area under a curve.[↗](../../integral/#x5 "tree and pragmatics") · Kindness is integral to our school values.[↗](../../integral/#x6 "tree and pragmatics") **integrity** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* Being honest and doing what is right even when nobody is watching.[↗](../../integrity/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 2:* Being whole and strong, not broken: «the integrity of the bridge».[↗](../../integrity/#m2 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* She showed integrity when she owned up to her mistake.[↗](../../integrity/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · Integrity means doing the right thing when no one is watching.[↗](../../integrity/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · A person of integrity does not cheat in tests.[↗](../../integrity/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") · He handed in the lost wallet because he has integrity.[↗](../../integrity/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") · The engineers checked the integrity of the bridge.[↗](../../integrity/#x5 "tree and pragmatics") · Cheating in games breaks your integrity.[↗](../../integrity/#x6 "tree and pragmatics") · But Hermes, astute as he was dishonest, determined to test the shepherd's integrity.[↗](../../integrity/#x7 "tree and pragmatics") · Let integrity and uprightness preserve me, because I wait for Thee.[↗](../../integrity/#x8 "tree and pragmatics") (Writings PSA.25.21, JPS 1917)[↗](../../integrity/#x8 "tree and pragmatics") · I will walk within my house in the integrity of my heart.[↗](../../integrity/#x9 "tree and pragmatics") (Writings PSA.101.2, JPS 1917)[↗](../../integrity/#x9 "tree and pragmatics") · Let me be weighed in a just balance, that God may know mine integrity — (Writings JOB.31.6, JPS 1917)[↗](../../integrity/#x10 "tree and pragmatics") **integument** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* (biology) A tough outer layer or covering of an animal or plant, such as skin, a shell, a husk or the coat of a seed.[↗](../../integument/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* Skin is the integument of the human body.[↗](../../integument/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · A seed's integument protects the baby plant inside.[↗](../../integument/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · The beetle's integument is hard and shiny.[↗](../../integument/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") · Snakes shed their integument as they grow.[↗](../../integument/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") · The integumentary system includes skin, hair and nails.[↗](../../integument/#x5 "tree and pragmatics") · The bark is the integument of the tree.[↗](../../integument/#x6 "tree and pragmatics") **intellect** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* Intellect is the power of the mind to think, understand and reason.[↗](../../intellect/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 2:* Intellect can mean a clever person with a great mind.[↗](../../intellect/#m2 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* She has a sharp intellect and solves puzzles fast.[↗](../../intellect/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · Reading builds the intellect.[↗](../../intellect/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · The professor was a man of great intellect.[↗](../../intellect/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") · The Seventh Path is the Occult Intelligence, because it is the Refulgent Splendor of all the Intellectual virtues which are perceived by the eyes of intellect, and by the contemplation of faith.[↗](../../intellect/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") (Sefer Yetzirah, Westcott 1887)[↗](../../intellect/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") · The Seventh Path is the Occult Intelligence, because it is the Refulgent Splendour of all the Intellectual virtues which are perceived by the eyes of intellect, and by the contemplation of faith.[↗](../../intellect/#x5 "tree and pragmatics") (Sefer Yetzirah, Westcott 1893)[↗](../../intellect/#x5 "tree and pragmatics") · The Twenty-seventh Path is the Exciting Intelligence, and it is so called bemuse by it is created the Intellect of all created beings under the highest heaven, and the excitement or motion of them.[↗](../../intellect/#x6 "tree and pragmatics") (Sefer Yetzirah, Westcott 1887)[↗](../../intellect/#x6 "tree and pragmatics") **intellectual** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* Intellectual means about thinking, reasoning and understanding: «intellectual skills».[↗](../../intellectual/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 2:* An intellectual is a person who thinks deeply and is interested in ideas, books and learning.[↗](../../intellectual/#m2 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 3:* Interested in serious ideas: «an intellectual film».[↗](../../intellectual/#m3 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* Chess is a great intellectual challenge.[↗](../../intellectual/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · Reading helps your intellectual growth.[↗](../../intellectual/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · Her grandfather was a famous intellectual.[↗](../../intellectual/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") · Copying a song breaks intellectual property rules.[↗](../../intellectual/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") · The puzzle tested our intellectual skills.[↗](../../intellectual/#x5 "tree and pragmatics") · They had an intellectual conversation about stars.[↗](../../intellectual/#x6 "tree and pragmatics") · The manner in which these tales are told, however, may often be taken as a test of the intellectual capacity of their tellers.[↗](../../intellectual/#x7 "tree and pragmatics") · The Seventh Path is the Occult Intelligence, because it is the Refulgent Splendor of all the Intellectual virtues which are perceived by the eyes of intellect, and by the contemplation of faith.[↗](../../intellectual/#x8 "tree and pragmatics") (Sefer Yetzirah, Westcott 1887)[↗](../../intellectual/#x8 "tree and pragmatics") · The Seventh Path is the Occult Intelligence, because it is the Refulgent Splendour of all the Intellectual virtues which are perceived by the eyes of intellect, and by the contemplation of faith.[↗](../../intellectual/#x9 "tree and pragmatics") (Sefer Yetzirah, Westcott 1893)[↗](../../intellectual/#x9 "tree and pragmatics") **intellectually** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* In a way that uses or relates to thinking, reasoning and understanding.[↗](../../intellectually/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 2:* In the mind, rather than in the body or the feelings.[↗](../../intellectually/#m2 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* Chess is intellectually challenging.[↗](../../intellectually/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · She is intellectually curious and always asks questions.[↗](../../intellectually/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · The project was fun and intellectually demanding.[↗](../../intellectually/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") · Intellectually, he knew the dog was safe, but he still felt scared.[↗](../../intellectually/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") · Reading widely helps you grow intellectually.[↗](../../intellectually/#x5 "tree and pragmatics") · The debate was intellectually honest and fair.[↗](../../intellectually/#x6 "tree and pragmatics") **intelligence** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* Intelligence is the ability to learn, understand and think clearly.[↗](../../intelligence/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 2:* Secret information gathered about enemies or dangers, and the people who gather it: «military intelligence».[↗](../../intelligence/#m2 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 3:* In computers, artificial intelligence (AI) is a machine's ability to do tasks that seem to need thinking.[↗](../../intelligence/#m3 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 4:* Intelligence can also mean news or information about something.[↗](../../intelligence/#m4 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* Dolphins are known for their intelligence.[↗](../../intelligence/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · Use your intelligence to solve the riddle.[↗](../../intelligence/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · Artificial intelligence can help doctors.[↗](../../intelligence/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") · The spies gathered intelligence about the plan.[↗](../../intelligence/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") · Octopuses show amazing intelligence.[↗](../../intelligence/#x5 "tree and pragmatics") · There are many kinds of intelligence, like music and sport skills.[↗](../../intelligence/#x6 "tree and pragmatics") · Nobody knew; nobody could give any intelligence.[↗](../../intelligence/#x7 "tree and pragmatics") · The Twenty-third Path is the Stable Intelligence, (Sefer Yetzirah, Westcott 1893)[↗](../../intelligence/#x8 "tree and pragmatics") · The Thirty-first Path is the Perpetual Intelligence; and why is it so called?[↗](../../intelligence/#x9 "tree and pragmatics") (Sefer Yetzirah, Westcott 1887)[↗](../../intelligence/#x9 "tree and pragmatics") · The Thirty-first Path is the Perpetual Intelligence ; but why is it so-called ?[↗](../../intelligence/#x10 "tree and pragmatics") (Sefer Yetzirah, Westcott 1893)[↗](../../intelligence/#x10 "tree and pragmatics") · A man shall be commended according to his intelligence; but he that is of a distorted understanding shall be despised.[↗](../../intelligence/#x11 "tree and pragmatics") (Writings PRO.12.8, JPS 1917)[↗](../../intelligence/#x11 "tree and pragmatics") **intelligent** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* Able to learn, understand and think well and quickly.[↗](../../intelligent/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 2:* Showing good thinking (an intelligent answer, an intelligent choice).[↗](../../intelligent/#m2 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 3:* Of a machine or system: able to act in a smart way (intelligent software).[↗](../../intelligent/#m3 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* Crows are intelligent birds that can use tools.[↗](../../intelligent/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · That was an intelligent question, Maya.[↗](../../intelligent/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · My dog is so intelligent she can open the gate.[↗](../../intelligent/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") · Scientists search for intelligent life in space.[↗](../../intelligent/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") · Make an intelligent choice and wear a helmet.[↗](../../intelligent/#x5 "tree and pragmatics") · Being intelligent is not the same as being kind.[↗](../../intelligent/#x6 "tree and pragmatics") · The robot uses intelligent software to avoid walls.[↗](../../intelligent/#x7 "tree and pragmatics") · ‘Do not fear,’ he answered; ‘she is too clever and intelligent to lose her way.[↗](../../intelligent/#x8 "tree and pragmatics") · 1) Our author maintains that there is a first intelligent, self-existing, almighty, eternal ruling cause of all things, and that an everlasting entity produced nonentities by a progression of effects.[↗](../../intelligent/#x9 "tree and pragmatics") (Sefer Yetzirah, Kalisch 1877)[↗](../../intelligent/#x9 "tree and pragmatics") **intelligible** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* Clear enough to be understood: an intelligible answer, intelligible speech.[↗](../../intelligible/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* His handwriting was hardly intelligible.[↗](../../intelligible/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · Speak slowly so your speech is intelligible.[↗](../../intelligible/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · The radio message was crackly but intelligible.[↗](../../intelligible/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") · The teacher made the hard idea intelligible to everyone.[↗](../../intelligible/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") · After the storm the phone line was barely intelligible.[↗](../../intelligible/#x5 "tree and pragmatics") · Write your answer in clear, intelligible sentences.[↗](../../intelligible/#x6 "tree and pragmatics") · But at last he did say something intelligible, and this is what he said.[↗](../../intelligible/#x7 "tree and pragmatics") **intend** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* To plan or mean to do something.[↗](../../intend/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 2:* To mean something to be for a certain person or use (this gift is intended for you).[↗](../../intend/#m2 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 3:* To mean a certain meaning by your words.[↗](../../intend/#m3 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* I intend to read the whole book this week.[↗](../../intend/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · She did not intend to break the window; it was an accident.[↗](../../intend/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · This ladder is intended for adults only.[↗](../../intend/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") · The plan worked as intended.[↗](../../intend/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") · What did you intend by that remark?[↗](../../intend/#x5 "tree and pragmatics") · We intended to go to the beach, but it rained.[↗](../../intend/#x6 "tree and pragmatics") · The money is intended for new library books.[↗](../../intend/#x7 "tree and pragmatics") · “The royal captain intends to visit you.”[↗](../../intend/#x8 "tree and pragmatics") **intended** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* Intended means planned or meant: «I intended to call you».[↗](../../intended/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 2:* Meant for a particular person or use: «The film is intended for children».[↗](../../intended/#m2 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 3:* (old-fashioned) Someone's intended is the person they plan to marry.[↗](../../intended/#m3 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* I intended to finish my homework, but I fell asleep.[↗](../../intended/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · This toy is intended for children over three.[↗](../../intended/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · The joke was not intended to hurt anyone.[↗](../../intended/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") · The plan worked as intended.[↗](../../intended/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") · The letter was intended for my sister.[↗](../../intended/#x5 "tree and pragmatics") · The bridge was intended to last a long time.[↗](../../intended/#x6 "tree and pragmatics") · I intended to get a more perfect specimen.[↗](../../intended/#x7 "tree and pragmatics") · What was intended was שְׁטוּחָה shetuchah, meaning ‘flat’.[↗](../../intended/#x8 "tree and pragmatics") (Sefer Yetzirah, Sefaria community translation)[↗](../../intended/#x8 "tree and pragmatics") · If the sphere be rotated forward, good is implied, if in a retrograde manner evil is intended.[↗](../../intended/#x9 "tree and pragmatics") (Sefer Yetzirah, Westcott 1887)[↗](../../intended/#x9 "tree and pragmatics") · The expression בְּלִי\[\]מָה beli\[-\]mah can be understood as either one word or two, with both readings being plausible and perhaps intended, and manuscripts commonly varying between the one- and two-word renditions.[↗](../../intended/#x10 "tree and pragmatics") (Sefer Yetzirah, Sefaria community translation)[↗](../../intended/#x10 "tree and pragmatics") · For they intended evil against thee, they imagined a device, wherewith they shall not prevail.[↗](../../intended/#x11 "tree and pragmatics") (Writings PSA.21.12, JPS 1917)[↗](../../intended/#x11 "tree and pragmatics") **intense** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* Very strong or extreme, as in intense heat, intense pain or intense colour.[↗](../../intense/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 2:* Having or showing very strong feelings, or being very serious.[↗](../../intense/#m2 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 3:* Needing great effort, as in «intense training».[↗](../../intense/#m3 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* The intense heat made the road melt.[↗](../../intense/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · Don't look at intense light like the Sun.[↗](../../intense/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · The final minutes of the game were intense.[↗](../../intense/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") · She gave me an intense stare.[↗](../../intense/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") · The training was intense, so we were tired.[↗](../../intense/#x5 "tree and pragmatics") · The red paint was an intense colour.[↗](../../intense/#x6 "tree and pragmatics") · He is very intense about his football.[↗](../../intense/#x7 "tree and pragmatics") · When Demeter became conscious of her loss her grief was intense, and she refused to be comforted.[↗](../../intense/#x8 "tree and pragmatics") **intensely** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* Intensely means very strongly, deeply or extremely.[↗](../../intensely/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* The sun was intensely hot at noon.[↗](../../intensely/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · He stared intensely at the chessboard.[↗](../../intensely/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · She trained intensely for the race.[↗](../../intensely/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") · The cheese smelled intensely of garlic.[↗](../../intensely/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") · They argued intensely about the rules.[↗](../../intensely/#x5 "tree and pragmatics") · The film was intensely scary.[↗](../../intensely/#x6 "tree and pragmatics") · So intensely hot it was, indeed, that it caught a dry tree under which Jason was now standing, and set it all in a light blaze.[↗](../../intensely/#x7 "tree and pragmatics") **intensified** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* Intensified means became stronger, bigger or more extreme: «The storm intensified overnight».[↗](../../intensified/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 2:* Intensified means made stronger on purpose: «The police intensified their search».[↗](../../intensified/#m2 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* The rain intensified and we ran inside.[↗](../../intensified/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · The hurricane intensified over the warm sea.[↗](../../intensified/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · The search for the missing dog intensified.[↗](../../intensified/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") · The smell intensified as we got closer to the bin.[↗](../../intensified/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") · The team intensified their training before the final.[↗](../../intensified/#x5 "tree and pragmatics") · As the music intensified, everyone started dancing.[↗](../../intensified/#x6 "tree and pragmatics") · The heat intensified during the afternoon.[↗](../../intensified/#x7 "tree and pragmatics") · Worry intensified when the bus was late.[↗](../../intensified/#x8 "tree and pragmatics") **intensify** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* To intensify means to become stronger, greater or more extreme.[↗](../../intensify/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 2:* To intensify something means to make it stronger or more extreme.[↗](../../intensify/#m2 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* The storm intensified overnight.[↗](../../intensify/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · The smell of smoke intensified as we got closer.[↗](../../intensify/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · The police intensified their search for the missing dog.[↗](../../intensify/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") · The music intensified as the hero reached the door.[↗](../../intensify/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") · Adding salt can intensify the flavour of chocolate.[↗](../../intensify/#x5 "tree and pragmatics") · His fear intensified when the lights went out.[↗](../../intensify/#x6 "tree and pragmatics") **intensifying** — *Everyday, meaning 1:* Becoming stronger, greater or more extreme: an intensifying storm.[↗](../../intensifying/#m1 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 2:* Making something stronger: intensifying the colour.[↗](../../intensifying/#m2 "tree and pragmatics") *Everyday, meaning 3:* (grammar) An intensifying word (an intensifier) makes another word stronger, like «very», «really», «so», «totally».[↗](../../intensifying/#m3 "tree and pragmatics") *Example:* The hurricane is intensifying as it moves over warm water.[↗](../../intensifying/#x1 "tree and pragmatics") · The rain was intensifying, so we ran for shelter.[↗](../../intensifying/#x2 "tree and pragmatics") · Adding more salt kept intensifying the flavour.[↗](../../intensifying/#x3 "tree and pragmatics") · «Very» is an intensifying word.[↗](../../intensifying/#x4 "tree and pragmatics") · The heat was intensifying through the afternoon.[↗](../../intensifying/#x5 "tree and pragmatics") · Competition was intensifying in the final round.[↗](../../intensifying/#x6 "tree and pragmatics") [1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/english/I/) … [27](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/english/I/page/27/) **28** [29](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/english/I/page/29/) … 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