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intense

Something that is intense has a very strong action or effect. The intense heat of the day has gone, and a cooler evening is here. The pain in his head was so intense he could hardly stand up. Intense activity involves doing a lot in a short time. The practice involved a mixture of long, slow stretching and intense jumping and running.

intense

possessing or displaying a distinctive feature to a heightened degree intense heat intense anxiety intense desire intense emotion the skunk's intense acrid odor intense pain enemy fire was intense (= vivid) (of color) having the highest saturation vivid green intense blue (= acute) extremely sharp or intense acute pain felt acute annoyance intense itching and burning

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Simple sentences

Due to the intense sunlight, his back was sunburnt.
External pressure grows ever more intense.
Far from stopping, the storm became much more intense.
Competition for the position is very intense.
The effects of the drug are intense but brief.
We couldn't play outdoors because of the intense heat.
He had an intense hatred of his teacher.
The eating of delicious food is one of the most intense and poignant pleasures of life.
Their feelings are intense and they tend to be jealous.
She is intense in her study.
How are you keeping off this intense heat?
The fire was so intense that the firemen couldn't get into the house.
You're so intense.
The cold is intense.
The bite of this spider causes intense pain.
One of Jupiter's moons, Io, has powerful volcanic activity that spews particles into Jupiter's magnetosphere. These particles create intense radiation belts and auroras around Jupiter.

Movie subtitles

If I do, this will be the most intense, arduous, And painful training you have ever experienced.
Valencia's intense, bro.
As sexy as she is, she's intense.
I heard she's quite intense in that way only crazy vegans can be. No, no.
Like, very intense.
God, that was intense.
Ugh, it just got so intense so fast, you know.
She is intense.
He has an intense and all-consuming horror of cats.
My young Mr. Tyler is pretty intense, but he's quite right.
But I affirm, with intense conviction the truth is on the march, and nothing will stop it.
You both have that intense look.
Forgive me, but it just seemed very funny, you two being so intense about an old, dead chicken.
But her reaction to the whole matter was entirely too intense.
We wonder about his intense frustration.
Although we are ambitious as you are to dominate Europe. we are not so intense about it.
Those notes represent months of intense research.
That one minute was more intense than all the rest of my life combined.
As a matter of fact, so would I. But her reaction was too intense.
She stared at me with frozen eyes, her expression intense like a child's.
I've never seen such an intense searching expression on anybody else.
There's a pain beyond pain an agony so intense, it shocks the mind into instant oblivion.
An intense young man.
That haze, a field of intense radiation. As you can well imagine, such a screen requires the output of great amounts of atomic energy.
The intense heat is turning Metaluna into a radioactive sun.
I have an intense dislike for it.
The power was so intense, the line splitter was burnt out.
Her face turned pale. She stared at me with frozen eyes, her expression intense like a child's.
This is the age romeo should be played. So intense.
Speaking of intense young men.
Intense friendships are quite normal in puberyt.
A third of my men were pinned down because the fire was so intense.
In those days, I was going through a particularly intense period myself.
I believe if we live with an intense fullness of spirit, every moment counts as a whole year, and every year we get five years younger!
The scent is more intense here.
But. sometimes I have this intense yearning.

News and current affairs

Our intense desire to take all that we can from nature leaves precious little for other forms of life.
The good news for all women, East and West, is that President Karzai, under intense international criticism - and not just Western criticism - changed the law less than one week after the march.
But now America's debt ceiling has become the subject of intense political posturing and touch-and-go negotiations behind closed doors.
But, by the time of the Iraq war, conditions had changed: the US had grown so powerful relative to the rest of the world that the lack of reciprocity became an intense source of irritation even to America's closest allies.
Moreover, the metaphor of war constitutes an implicit appeal to intense mobilization, not only by a country that comes under attack, but also by its friends and allies.
Not surprisingly, the political opposition to such debt mutualization was intense.
Moreover, forests absorb intense rainfall, thereby reducing the risk of flooding.
In fact, the US currently is experiencing the longest absence of intense landfall hurricanes since records began in 1900, while the adjusted damage cost for the US during this period, including Hurricane Sandy, has fallen slightly.
Democracy, in its Greek origins, began with the creation of a public sphere distinct from the family and its intense emotions.
So, in a way, Qadri's arrival in Pakistan and his intense political activism have served a purpose: he has reinforced the people's faith in a system that they are continuing to build.
By relenting just a little to intense global pressure to revalue its exchange rate, the Chinese leadership has masterfully stifled the growing chorus of demands to rein in its growing trade surplus.
Consider what the IPCC had to say about extreme weather events such as intense hurricanes.
The intentional character and symbolic significance of burials prior to 30,000 years ago, especially those of Neanderthals, remain the subject of intense debate.
Intense discussions are normal for such a high-stakes project.
It has already faced intense criticism for its failure to get the country's fiscal house in order.
NEW HAVEN - In the late 1980s, there was intense debate about the so-called productivity paradox - when massive investments in information technology (IT) were not delivering measureable productivity improvements.
It demands intense diplomatic engagement and calls upon relationships that have been built and maintained over decades, as well as alliances with new partners.
As the intense US debate about President Barack Obama's proposed use of military force highlights, the attack-Syria push is not about upholding America's national interest.
That may be part of the story, but competition for talent and for customers seems intense between investment banks and others, yet they have collectively been extravagantly rewarded at the expense of those customers.
These proposals, once in great vogue, have receded. Not surprisingly, the political opposition to such debt mutualization was intense.
Indian officials are generally discrete in public about relations with China, but in private their concerns remain intense.
Moreover, even these estimates are really not much more than educated guesses, because only in the US have shale formations been subject to intense exploration over a period of decades.
British law firms that have apparently made a lot of money representing libel plaintiffs from around the world impeded adoption of the new law through intense lobbying.
Thanks to a combination of intense heat and periodic Sahelian rains, Madi consistently produces clean, high-quality cotton on the gently sloping hills that surround his walled compound.
BERLIN - In the coming months, several serious regional economic and political crises could combine into one mega-watershed, fueling an intense global upheaval.
An intense crash course lasting four weeks followed, enough to instruct them in their new jobs.

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