INTENSIVELY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does intensively mean? 

• INTENSIVELY (adverb)
  The adverb INTENSIVELY has 1 sense:

1. in an intensive manner

  Familiarity information: INTENSIVELY used as an adverb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• INTENSIVELY (adverb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

In an intensive manner

Context example:

he studied the snake intensively

Pertainym:

intense (possessing or displaying a distinctive feature to a heightened degree)

 Context examples 

Researchers found that intensively controlling a person’s blood pressure was more effective at slowing the accumulation of white matter lesions than standard treatment of high blood pressure.

(Intensive blood pressure control may slow age-related brain damage, National Institutes of Health)

A common, gram negative gut bacterium that has been studied intensively by geneticists because of its small genome size, normal lack of pathogenicity, and ease of growth in the laboratory.

(Escherichia coli, NCI Thesaurus)

We'd turn the laser on and they'd jump on an object, hold it with their paws and intensively bite it as if they were trying to capture and kill it, says lead investigator and Yale Associated Professor of Psychiatry Ivan de Araujo.

(Geneticists produce laser-activated killer mice, Wikinews)

Trees played a critical role in stopping the slides, and the researchers suggest that planting more trees - perhaps interspersed with rice fields - in areas that are intensively irrigated might reduce the risk of soil liquefaction.

(NASA Map Reveals a New Landslide Risk Factor, NASA)