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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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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Intense" Quotes from Famous Books

... sentences. Darkness wrapped him about, so that no one watching could have seen his face. But he himself knew that under the bronze which he never lost he had grown pale. His heartbeats grew suddenly fainter, an eerie chill more intense than any which the note of danger had ever occasioned caused him ...

— Fire-Tongue • Sax Rohmer

... was good for him; on his way home he had fallen heavily from his horse and broken his leg. We shouted and called for help; there was no answer; we tried to lift the injured man on his horse, but without success; the least movement caused intense agony. We decided to tie up the horse in a quiet part of the wood; then we made a chair of our crossed arms and carried the man as gently as possible, following his directions till we got him home. The way was long, and we were constantly obliged to stop and rest. At last ...

— Emile • Jean-Jacques Rousseau

... other's ideas were conventional, grew monosyllabic. Philip desired popularity but could bring himself to make no advances to others. A fear of rebuff prevented him from affability, and he concealed his shyness, which was still intense, under a frigid taciturnity. He was going through the same experience as he had done at school, but here the freedom of the medical students' life made it possible for him to live ...

— Of Human Bondage • W. Somerset Maugham

... Captain Sellers, who had his own ideas as to why she was coming to live next door to him, and was somewhat flattered in consequence, volunteered to assist, and, being debarred by deafness from learning that his services were refused, caused intense excitement by getting wedged under ...

— Salthaven • W. W. Jacobs

... afternoon; the sky was as dryly powdered with unbroken blue as was the earth with white. The silver bells and scarlet pompons of the harness crackled in the still, intense cold; and a blanched vapour hung about the horse's head. Jasper Penny, enveloped in voluminous buffalo robes and fur, gazed with an increased interest at the familiar, flowing scene; nearby the forest had been cut, and suave, rolling fields ...

— The Three Black Pennys - A Novel • Joseph Hergesheimer

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