OXFORD 9000
📚 adj • entry_id 14570

intense

/ɪnˈtɛns/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
intenso
Of a characteristic: extreme or very high or strong in degree; severe; also, excessive, towering.
Nor was I yet able to passe through any of the narrower streets, but kept the widest; the ground and air, smoake and fiery vapour, continu'd so intense that my haire was almost sin…
[…] Nature had a robe of glory on, / And the bright air o'er every shape did weave / Intenser hues, so that the herbless stone, / The leafless bough among the leaves alone, / Had b…
intenso
Under tension; tightly drawn; strained, stressed, tense.