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'intensifier'

[intensifier.n.01] as in: a modifier that has little meaning except to intensify the meaning it modifies

Examples:
`up' in `finished up' is an intensifier
`honestly' in `I honestly don't know' is an intensifier

Origins

					intensifier (English)
├── -er (English)
│   ├── -er (Middle English (1100-1500))
│   ├── -eren (Middle English (1100-1500))
│   ├── -or (Old English (ca. 450-1100))
│   └── -ra (Old English (ca. 450-1100))
└── intensify (English)