Invent vs Intense - What's the difference?
invent | intense |
To design a new process or mechanism.
To create something fictional for a particular purpose.
(obsolete) To come upon; to find; to find out; to discover.
* 1590 , Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene , I.vi:
Strained; tightly drawn.
Strict, very close or earnest.
Extreme in degree; excessive.
Extreme in size or strength.
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Very severe.
As a verb invent
is to design a new process or mechanism.As an adjective intense is
strained; tightly drawn.invent
English
Verb
(en verb)- After weeks of hard work, I invented a new way to alphabetize matchbooks.
- I knew I had to invent an excuse, and quickly.
- We need a name to put in this form, so let's just invent one.
- Far off he wonders, what them makes so glad, / If Bacchus merry fruit they did inuent [...].
Synonyms
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English
Adjective
(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.}}
