reintensifyとは 意味・読み方・使い方

動詞

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, 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:

     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, 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.