reintensify

English

Etymology

From re- +‎ intensify.

Verb

reintensify (third-person singular simple present reintensifies, present participle reintensifying, simple past and past participle reintensified)

  1. (transitive) To intensify again.
    • 1979, The Indian Police Journal‎[1], volume 26, page 24:
      The lifting or the developed fixed print is done by first reintensifying it with any contrast coloured powder and then lifting by collotape lifter.
  2. (intransitive) To become intense again.
    • 2009 July 3, Matthew Saltmarsh, “Europe’s Central Bank Holds Rate Steady”, in New York Times‎[2]:
      Major initiatives now appear unlikely unless the financial crisis reintensifies, as the bank assesses whether the much-discussed “green shoots” in recent data releases will wither or take root.
    • 2020 June 1, David Longshore, Encyclopedia of Hurricanes, Typhoons, and Cyclones‎[3], third edition, New York: Infobase Holdings, Inc., →ISBN, page 165:
      Not surprisingly, Donna briefly reintensified after returning to the temperate Atlantic, seeing the rapid drop in its central pressure once again boot it from a Category 2 to a Category 3 hurricane on the evening of September 11.
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