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US
/ˌɪnˈtɛnsɪv/
]
[ UK /ɪntˈɛnsɪv/ ]
[ UK /ɪntˈɛnsɪv/ ]
NOUN
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a modifier that has little meaning except to intensify the meaning it modifies
`up' in `finished up' is an intensifier
`honestly' in `I honestly don't know' is an intensifier
ADJECTIVE
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tending to give force or emphasis
an intensive adverb -
characterized by a high degree or intensity; often used as a combining form
the questioning was intensive
intensive care
a labor-intensive industry
research-intensive -
of agriculture; intended to increase productivity of a fixed area by expending more capital and labor
intensive conditions
intensive agriculture
How To Use intensive In A Sentence
- I'll make an intensive study of a subject.
- By May of 1999, the foundation offered two scholarship programs and intensive SAT tutoring for high school juniors and seniors.
- Doctors put her on a respirator and wheeled her downstairs to the intensive care unit.
- It was dreadful, because if people are famished and dying you have to do intensive feeding seven or eight times a day.
- Following this intensive study carried out over a number of years it was discovered that Carlow boasts the tallest broadleaf in Ireland.
- Objective To evaluate the role of gene CCR5 on donor cells in models where intensive preconditioning of the recipient occurs, thus provide the scientific evidence for clinical experience of allo-HSCT.
- Sophie Theallet says she simplified some of her trademark labor-intensive haute-couture elements, like hand-stitched insets. From the Runways, Five Easy Pieces for Fall
- It is expensive and very energy intensive. Times, Sunday Times
- The landscape was well ordered with fields defined by hedges and ditches, trackways linking settlements, and unenclosed grazing areas beyond the more intensively used enclosed land.
- More intensive rehabilitation activities with chronic and elderly patients were ruled out.