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Intensive

Stretched; admitting of intension, or increase of degree; that can be intensified.

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Intense 84% connected

Strained; tightly drawn; kept on the stretch; strict; very close or earnest; as, intense study or application; intense thought.

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Intense 84% connected

Strained; tightly drawn; kept on the stretch; strict; very close or earnest; as, intense study or application; intense thought.

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Modifier 76% connected

One who, or that which, modifies.

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Qualifier 76% connected

One who, or that which, qualifies; that which modifies, reduces, tempers or restrains.

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Intensiveness 74% connected

The quality or state of being intensive; intensity.

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Intensiveness 74% connected

The quality or state of being intensive; intensity.

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Intensifier 66% connected

One who or that which intensifies or strengthens; in photography, an agent used to intensify the lights or shadows of a picture.

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Intensifier 92% connected

One who or that which intensifies or strengthens; in photography, an agent used to intensify the lights or shadows of a picture.

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Extensive 94% connected

Having wide extent; of much superficial extent; expanded; large; broad; wide; comprehensive; as, an extensive farm; an extensive lake; an extensive s…

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Extensive 94% connected

Having wide extent; of much superficial extent; expanded; large; broad; wide; comprehensive; as, an extensive farm; an extensive lake; an extensive s…

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Direct verb · 85% connection

plan and direct (a complex undertaking); "he masterminded the robbery"

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Engineer verb · 85% connection

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Mastermind verb · 85% connection

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Orchestrate verb · 85% connection

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Organise verb · 85% connection

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Organize verb · 85% connection

plan and direct (a complex undertaking); "he masterminded the robbery"

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Active noun · 78% connection

a person who is a participating member of an organization; "the club issues a list of members, both the actives and the retirees"

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Active voice noun · 78% connection

the voice used to indicate that the grammatical subject of the verb is performing the action or causing the happening denoted by the v…

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Adjunct noun · 78% connection

a construction that can be used to extend the meaning of a word or phrase but is not one of the main constituents of a sentence

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Adverbial adjective · 78% connection

of or relating to or functioning as an adverb; "adverbial syntax"

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Complement noun · 78% connection

a word or phrase used to complete a grammatical construction

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Constituent noun · 78% connection

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Dependent adjective · 78% connection

(of a clause) unable to stand alone syntactically as a complete sentence; "a subordinate (or dependent) clause functions as a noun or…

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Direct object noun · 78% connection

the object that receives the direct action of the verb

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Grammatical constituent noun · 78% connection

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Indirect adjective · 78% connection

extended senses; not direct in manner or language or behavior or action; "making indirect but legitimate inquiries"; "an indirect insu…

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Accrue noun · 78% connection

To come to by way of increase; to arise or spring as a growth or result; to be added as increase, profit, or damage, especially as the…

Its definition shares important concepts with this word: stretched, admitting, intension, increase, intensified.
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Accumulate verb · 78% connection

To grow or increase in quantity or number; to increase greatly.

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Apperception noun · 78% connection

The mind's perception of itself as the subject or actor in its own states; perception that reflects upon itself; sometimes, intensifie…

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Astride adverb · 78% connection

With one leg on each side, as a man when on horseback; with the legs stretched wide apart; astraddle.

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Bat noun · 78% connection

One of the Cheiroptera, an order of flying mammals, in which the wings are formed by a membrane stretched between the elongated finger…

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Boom noun · 78% connection

A line of connected floating timbers stretched across a river, or inclosing an area of water, to keep saw logs, etc., from floating aw…

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Bow verb · 78% connection

An appliance consisting of an elastic rod, with a number of horse hairs stretched from end to end of it, used in playing on a stringed…

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Brail noun · 78% connection

A stock at each end of a seine to keep it stretched.

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Bronchophony noun · 78% connection

A modification of the voice sounds, by which they are intensified and heightened in pitch; -- observed in auscultation of the chest in…

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Build verb · 78% connection

To increase and strengthen; to increase the power and stability of; to settle, or establish, and preserve; -- frequently with up; as,…

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Burn verb · 78% connection

To consume with fire; to reduce to ashes by the action of heat or fire; -- frequently intensified by up: as, to burn up wood.

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Cicada noun · 78% connection

Any species of the genus Cicada. They are large hemipterous insects, with nearly transparent wings. The male makes a shrill sound by p…

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Cramp noun · 78% connection

A piece of wood having a curve corresponding to that of the upper part of the instep, on which the upper leather of a boot is stretche…

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