INTENSIFICATIONS Antonyms

• the process of becoming softer

• having a softening or soothing effect especially to the skin

• an interruption in the intensity or amount of something

• the act of abating

• the feeling that comes when something burdensome is removed or reduced

• the act of reducing something unpleasant (as pain or annoyance)

• weakening in force or intensity

• the property of something that has been weakened or reduced in thickness or density

• a change downward

• a process of becoming smaller or shorter

• the amount by which something decreases

• the act of decreasing or reducing something

• decrease in size, extent, or range

• make become smaller

• (law) the privilege of using something that is not your own (as using another's land as a right of way to your own land)

• the act of reducing something unpleasant (as pain or annoyance)

• to act in such a way as to cause an offense to seem less serious

• a partial excuse to mitigate censure; an attempt to represent an offense as less serious than it appears by showing mitigating circumstances

• the action of lessening in severity or intensity

• a musical passage moving from one key to another

• (electronics) the transmission of a signal by using it to vary a carrier wave; changing the carrier's amplitude or frequency or phase

• rise and fall of the voice pitch

• a manner of speaking in which the loudness or pitch or tone of the voice is modified

• the act of modifying or adjusting according to due measure and proportion (as with regard to artistic effect)

• the act of decreasing or reducing something

• any process in which electrons are added to an atom or ion (as by removing oxygen or adding hydrogen); always occurs accompanied by oxidation of the reducing agent

• the act of reducing complexity

• (physiology) the gradual lengthening of inactive muscle or muscle fibers

• (physics) the exponential return of a system to equilibrium after a disturbance

• a feeling of refreshing tranquility and an absence of tension or worry

• an occurrence of control or strength weakening

• freedom from activity (work or strain or responsibility)

• a method of solving simultaneous equations by guessing a solution and then reducing the errors that result by successive approximations until all the errors are less than some specified amount

• the act of making less strict

• hardening something by heat treatment

• moderating by making more temperate