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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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... were founded in England, and it is at this period that we begin to see evidence of a new style of architecture—the Gothic. Most of the great cathedrals of Europe date from the eleventh century—the piety of the world having been wrought to a pitch of intense excitement by the expected end of all things, unaccountably fixed by popular belief to take place in the year one thousand. When the fatal year—and the following one, which some held to be the real date for the sounding of the last trumpet—passed without the arrival ...

— The Builders - A Story and Study of Masonry • Joseph Fort Newton

... glad look in her face! what a happy smile! With lips half parted and eyes which shone with an interest intense, she never took her gaze from Mr. Richards' beaming countenance till he had ...

— As We Sweep Through The Deep • Gordon Stables

... its description of the country and inhabitants of Central Asia, and in its connection with the remarkable event of our world—the Flood. Mount Ararat, which was ascended by M. Parrot, must ever possess to the Biblical reader most intense interest, as the resting place of the ark after the ...

— The Expedition to Borneo of H.M.S. Dido - For the Suppression of Piracy • Henry Keppel

... hedge-divided country, with the distant fringe of trees as obvious as the scarecrow in the bean-field close at hand; in a trembling, vivid, flickering instant, everything was clear and plain; then came a flush of red into the yellow light; a change to blue; a brightness so intense that there was nothing else but light; and then the ...

— Life And Adventures Of Martin Chuzzlewit • Charles Dickens

... never before given him such a fascinating vision of herself. All the eagerness of youth for a strange life, for great distances, for a future in which there was an air of adventure, of combat—a subtle thought of redress and conquest, had filled her with an intense excitement, which she returned to the giver with a more open and exquisite ...

— Nostromo: A Tale of the Seaboard • Joseph Conrad

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