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[ UK /ɪntˈɛns/ ]
[ US /ˌɪnˈtɛns/ ]
ADJECTIVE
  1. extremely sharp or severe
    intense itching and burning
    felt acute annoyance
    acute pain
  2. possessing or displaying a distinctive feature to a heightened degree
    intense heat
    intense emotion
    enemy fire was intense
    intense anxiety
    intense desire
    intense pain
    the skunk's intense acrid odor
  3. (of color) having the highest saturation
    intense blue
    vivid green

How To Use intense In A Sentence

  • The stable oily liquid, which absorbs intense heat, was used as a coolant for electrical transformers and capacitors.
  • enemy fire was intense
  • Typical mesocyclonic tornadoes are caused by intense thunderstorms with appropriate vertical and directional wind shear. The Volokh Conspiracy » Pathogens in Harm’s Way:
  • He may be intense and sometimes untactful on an issue you are debating, but that will only be on that ANC Daily News Briefing
  • Apart from intense competition in the retail savings market, banks and building societies also compete strongly in the market for house finance.
  • Intense sunlight may be a trigger to skin cancer.
  • Listening to this intense young man, there is little doubt he has done things the hard way; no favours doled out and none asked for.
  • The stakeholders are frighteningly numerous, diverse, intensely self-interested, and powerful.
  • Identification includes much less intense and less exclusive attitudes.
  • Possibly one of the most compassionate pieces of music ever made, it asks us, no, arranges that we see the plight of what I'll be brutal and call a lovelorn drag queen with such intense empathy that when the singer hurts him, we do too. Archive 2009-02-01
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