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adjective

Intense adj.

Strained; tightly drawn; kept on the stretch; strict; very close or earnest; as, intense study or application; intense thought.

Extreme in degree; excessive; immoderate; as:

(a)

Ardent; fervent; as, intense heat.

(b)

Keen; biting; as, intense cold.

(c)

Vehement; earnest; exceedingly strong; as, intense passion or hate.

(d)

Very severe; violent; as, intense pain or anguish.

(e)

Deep; strong; brilliant; as, intense color or light. "In this intense seclusion of the forest."

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Etymology of 'Intense'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Intense" Quotes from Famous Books

... was ill he became an object of intense interest to visitors at Bognor. Binsted's Library in the town exhibited a daily bulletin; and in 1819 the Prince and Princess of Saxe-Coburg called upon him, while the Princess of Hesse Homburg on her return sent a prescription ...

— Highways & Byways in Sussex • E.V. Lucas

... and on, in the intervals of seeing Alice, he longed, with an intense and painful longing, for his God. He longed for him just because he felt that he was utterly separated from him by his sin. He wanted the thing he couldn't have and wasn't fit to have. He wanted it, just as he wanted ...

— The Three Sisters • May Sinclair

... It was almost overpowering; for, although I had made up my mind to bear the worst, and bear it bravely, the thought of falling into the hands of the Rebels was horrible in the extreme. A year of intense mental suffering seemed to have been compressed into those ...

— The Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 13, No. 79, May, 1864 • Various

... before. Olof—you are your father's son, and 'tis not your way, either of you, to care much what you do—if it's building or breaking." And with intense earnestness, as if concentrating all her being in her eyes and voice, she went on: "Never deceive, Olof; stand by your promise and ...

— The Song Of The Blood-Red Flower • Johannes Linnankoski

... went was a remote Southern town, where Northern newspapers seldom found their way; consequently he could not know anything of the intense excitement that was prevailing in New York over the mysterious disappearance of Raymond Palmer and the costly stones ...

— Mona • Mrs. Georgie Sheldon

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