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UK
/ɪntˈɛns/
]
[ US /ˌɪnˈtɛns/ ]
[ US /ˌɪnˈtɛns/ ]
ADJECTIVE
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extremely sharp or severe
intense itching and burning
felt acute annoyance
acute pain -
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 -
(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
