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How to pronounce “intensive”
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Pronunciation guide for intensive
- Learning goal
- Practice the English pronunciation of intensive with real speech in context.
- Available examples
- 8 YouTube examples
- Real speech example
- How health workers are responding to the COVID-19 pandemic
working in the intensive care units and
- Definition summary
- Done with intensity or to a great degree; thorough.
Example 1 of 8
How to pronounce intensive
How health workers are responding to the COVID-19 pandemic

working in the intensive care units and
Example Sentences
A Deep Dive Into “intensive”
Meaning
- [Adjective]
- Done with intensity or to a great degree; thorough.
- Being made more intense.
- Making something more intense; intensifying.
- Involving much activity in a short period of time; highly concentrated.
- Of or pertaining to innate or internal intensity or strength rather than outward extent.
- Chiefly suffixed to a noun: using something with intensity; requiring a great amount of something; demanding.
- (obsolete)
- [Noun]
- A thing which makes something more intense; specifically (linguistics), a form of a word with a more forceful or stronger sense than the root on which it is built.
- (education) A course taught intensively, involving much activity in a short period of time.
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