"disintensify" meaning in English

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  "etymology_text": "dis- + intense + -ify",
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          "ref": "1884, Robert Browning, “A Bean-stripe; also Apple-Eating”, in Ferishtah's Fancies",
          "text": "All the same, Of absolute and irretrievable And all-subduing black, — black's soul of black Beyond white's power to disintensify, — Of that I saw no sample : such may wreck My life and ruin my philosophy",
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          "ref": "1927, Sean O'Casey, The Silver Tassie",
          "text": "You know Susie'll have to be told to disintensify her soul-huntin', for religion even isn't an excuse for saying that a man'll become a cockatrice.",
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          "text": "They may also choose to disintensify, neutralize, or dramatize different types of facial expressions to achieve specific interaction outcomes or goals in their particular culture.",
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        "To make less intense."
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          "intense",
          "intense"
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  "word": "disintensify"
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          "ref": "1884, Robert Browning, “A Bean-stripe; also Apple-Eating”, in Ferishtah's Fancies",
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