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intensively

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in·ten·sive  (n-tnsv)
adj.
1. Of, relating to, or characterized by intensity: intensive training. See Usage Note at intense.
2. Grammar Tending to emphasize or intensify: an intensive adverb.
3. Possessing or requiring to a high degree. Often used in combination: research-intensive; labor-intensive.
4. Relating to or being a method especially of land cultivation intended to increase the productivity of a fixed area by means of an increase in capital and labor.
5. Physics Having the same value for any subdivision of a thermodynamic system: intensive pressure.
n. Grammar
A linguistic element, such as the adverb extremely or awfully, that provides force or emphasis. Also called intensifier.
in·tensive·ly adv.
in·tensive·ness n.
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Adv.1.intensively - in an intensive manner; "he studied the snake intensively"
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Spanish intensively [ɪnˈtɛnsɪvlɪ] adv → intensivamente
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Farm it like your vegetable plot, intensively, all the year, in crops that make horse-feed, irrigating, fertilizing, rotating your crops.
The Valley of the Moon by London, Jack View in context
The hard labor of the 'Dictionary' had been the only remedy for Johnson's profound grief at the death of his wife, in 1752; and how intensively he could apply himself at need he showed again some years later when to pay his mother's funeral expenses he wrote in the evenings of a single week his
A History of English Literature by Fletcher, Robert Huntington View in context
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