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intensely

/ɪnˈtɛnsli/ adverb B2
  1. In an intense manner. · He pursued his studies intensely.
  2. To an intense degree, extremely. · An intensely private man, he kept chit-chat to a minimum.
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The day being intensely hot, and the sun shining in its strength, the Traveler stopped to rest, and sought shelter from the heat under the Shadow of the Ass.
Three Hundred Aesop's Fables, p. 43 · B2
She had an uneasy feeling that it was rather sinful to set one’s heart so intensely on any human creature as she had set hers on Anne, and perhaps she performed a sort of unconscious penance for this by being stricter and more critical than if the girl had been less dear to her.
Anne of Green Gables, p. 243 · C1
Behind him stood a group of people who seemed to be intensely amused by the situation, but a chill came over me as I looked at them.
The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes, p. 22 · B2
She is a heavy, solid person, very limited, intensely respectable, and inclined to be puritanical.
The Hound of the Baskervilles, p. 100 · C1

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