All intensate antonyms

verb intensate

• decrease — When something decreases or when you decrease it, it becomes less in quantity, size, or intensity.
• lessen — to become less.
• lower — to cause to descend; let or put down: to lower a flag.
• soothe — to tranquilize or calm, as a person or the feelings; relieve, comfort, or refresh: soothing someone's anger; to soothe someone with a hot drink.
• subtract — to withdraw or take away, as a part from a whole.
• weaken — to make weak or weaker.
• decline — If something declines, it becomes less in quantity, importance, or strength.
• diminish — to make or cause to seem smaller, less, less important, etc.; lessen; reduce.
• drop — a small quantity of liquid that falls or is produced in a more or less spherical mass; a liquid globule.
• fall — to come or drop down suddenly to a lower position, especially to leave a standing or erect position suddenly, whether voluntarily or not: to fall on one's knees.
• slump — to drop or fall heavily; collapse: Suddenly she slumped to the floor.
• fill — to make full; put as much as can be held into: to fill a jar with water.
• lighten — to become less severe, stringent, or harsh; ease up: Border inspections have lightened recently.
• pale — light-colored or lacking in color: a pale complexion; his pale face; a pale child. lacking the usual intensity of color due to fear, illness, stress, etc.: She looked pale and unwell when we visited her in the nursing home.
• quieten — to become quiet (often followed by down).
• soften — to make soft or softer.
• discourage — to deprive of courage, hope, or confidence; dishearten; dispirit.
• dull — not sharp; blunt: a dull knife.
• halt — to falter, as in speech, reasoning, etc.; be hesitant; stumble.
• help — to give or provide what is necessary to accomplish a task or satisfy a need; contribute strength or means to; render assistance to; cooperate effectively with; aid; assist: He planned to help me with my work. Let me help you with those packages.
• hinder — to cause delay, interruption, or difficulty in; hamper; impede: The storm hindered our progress.
• hurt — to cause bodily injury to; injure: He was badly hurt in the accident.
• reduce — to bring down to a smaller extent, size, amount, number, etc.: to reduce one's weight by 10 pounds.
• slow — moving or proceeding with little or less than usual speed or velocity: a slow train.
• undermine — to injure or destroy by insidious activity or imperceptible stages, sometimes tending toward a sudden dramatic effect.
• darken — If something darkens or if a person or thing darkens it, it becomes darker.
• debase — To debase something means to reduce its value or quality.
• degrade — Something that degrades someone causes people to have less respect for them.
• depress — If someone or something depresses you, they make you feel sad and disappointed.
• play down — a dramatic composition or piece; drama.
• upset — to overturn: to upset a pitcher of milk.
• calm — A calm person does not show or feel any worry, anger, or excitement.
• compress — When you compress something or when it compresses, it is pressed or squeezed so that it takes up less space.
• contract — A contract is a legal agreement, usually between two companies or between an employer and employee, which involves doing work for a stated sum of money.
• abridge — to reduce the length of (a written work) by condensing or rewriting
• belittle — If you belittle someone or something, you say or imply that they are unimportant or not very good.
• castigate — If you castigate someone or something, you speak to them angrily or criticize them severely.
• condemn — If you condemn something, you say that it is very bad and unacceptable.
• criticise — criticize
• criticize — If you criticize someone or something, you express your disapproval of them by saying what you think is wrong with them.
• disgrace — the loss of respect, honor, or esteem; ignominy; shame: the disgrace of criminals.
• humiliate — to cause (a person) a painful loss of pride, self-respect, or dignity; mortify.
• shame — the painful feeling arising from the consciousness of something dishonorable, improper, ridiculous, etc., done by oneself or another: She was overcome with shame.
• shorten — to make short or shorter.
• shrink — to draw back, as in retreat or avoidance: to shrink from danger; to shrink from contact.
• miniaturize — to make in extremely small size in order to keep volume or weight to a minimum: to miniaturize electronic equipment.
• alight — If something is alight, it is burning.
• dismount — to get off or alight from a horse, bicycle, etc.
• subside — to sink to a low or lower level.
• unfix — to render no longer fixed; unfasten; detach; loosen; free.