Intense vs Terror - What's the difference?
intense | terror |
Strained; tightly drawn.
Strict, very close or earnest.
Extreme in degree; excessive.
Extreme in size or strength.
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Very severe.
(uncountable) Intense dread, fright, or fear.
(countable) Specific instance of being intensely terrified.
* 1794 , (William Godwin),
(uncountable) The action or quality of causing dread; terribleness, especially such qualities in narrative fiction.
* 1921', (Edith Birkhead), ''The tale of '''terror : a study of the Gothic romance
(countable) Something or someone that causes such fear.
* 1841 , (Ralph Waldo Emerson)
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As an adjective intense
is strained; tightly drawn.As a noun terror is
terror.intense
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(en-adj)High and wet, passage=Floods in northern India, mostly in the small state of Uttarakhand, have wrought disaster on an enormous scale. The early, intense onset of the monsoon on June 14th swelled rivers, washing away roads, bridges, hotels and even whole villages.}}
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* terrour (obsolete or hypercorrect)Noun
- The terrors with which I was seizedwere extreme.
- The terrors of the storm
Mr. Pratt's Patients, chapter=1 , passage=A chap named Eleazir Kendrick and I had chummed in together the summer afore and built a fish-weir and shanty at Setuckit Point, down Orham way. For a spell we done pretty well. Then there came a reg'lar terror of a sou'wester same as you don't get one summer in a thousand, and blowed the shanty flat and ripped about half of the weir poles out of the sand.}}
