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severe Adjective

— Something that is severe is very bad. He has a severe wound from dropping a big knife on his foot. — Someone who is severe gets angry easily or frequently punishes people; they are harsh or strict. The teacher had a severe way of making the learners sit still.

severe

— adjective (= terrible, wicked) intensely or extremely bad or unpleasant in degree or quality severe pain a severe case of flu a terrible cough under wicked fire from the enemy's guns a wicked cough — adjective (= hard, knockout) very strong or vigorous strong winds a hard left to the chin a knockout punch a severe blow — adjective (= stark) severely simple a stark interior — adjective (= spartan) unsparing and uncompromising in discipline or judgment a parent severe to the pitch of hostility — H.G.Wells a hefty six-footer with a rather severe mien a strict disciplinarian a Spartan upbringing — adjective (= dangerous, grave, grievous, serious, life-threatening) causing fear or anxiety by threatening great harm a dangerous operation a grave situation a grave illness grievous bodily harm a serious wound a serious turn of events a severe case of pneumonia a life-threatening disease — adjective very bad in degree or extent a severe worldwide depression the house suffered severe damage

Synonyms severe synonyms

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severe English » English

strict harsh stern serious rigorous intense hard austere rigid cruel strong violent heavy acute sharp grave extreme terrible stringent miserable tough fierce difficult stiff stark drastic rough earnest bad relentless keen inclement firm dangerous critical brutal biting unsparing smart ruthless pungent pressing poignant life-threatening knockout important grievous excessive demanding bitter

Topics severe topics

What do people use severe to talk about?

Universe, creation Sky

Weather

What words describe the weather when it is bad?

bad terrible foul inclement rough dirty sky severe

Social behavior Authority

Mental illness

What words refer to partial or total mental disability?

mild retardation severe retardation vegetable

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Simple sentences

Losing the job she loved so much was a severe blow for Mary.

Mr Yoshida is too severe with his children.

On the whole, the country has a severe climate.

Company A is trying to play us off against Company B in a severe price-war.

The law, as it is, is not so severe.

There is a severe shortage of water in this city, so we must give up having a bath occasionally.

Alice returned home early from work with a severe headache.

He was severe with his children.

Due to severe educational influence the child became a wholly different person.

They say we are going to have a severe winter.

This year the region has been hit by a severe drought.

Biologists assert the losses are severe.

The unprecedented drought did severe damage to the wheat harvest.

The prolonged drought did severe damage to crops.

There is no knowing when a severe earthquake will happen in Tokyo.

On the whole, Canada has a severe climate.

We are suffering from a severe water shortage this summer.

That country has a severe climate.

Jack is very severe with his children.

I felt a severe pain on the shoulder.

We may have a very severe earthquake any moment now.

The drought did severe damage to the harvest.

The reason he was absent was that he had a severe headache.

His criticisms were very severe.

Movie subtitles

Whatever, she's got severe CO toxicity.

She has sustained severe burns.

Severe concussion, blood loss.

Mrs Smart has a severe chest infection.

It's serious. Tachycardia, likely severe chest injury.

Something I have in common with the ghosts. Or with the rats. - Do not be so severe, Lady Duchess.

You had a severe shock.

No discipline can be too severe for the man that denies that by word or deed!

This lady has been putting me through a severe cross-examination. But the gist of it is that, away there in Basra. new aeroplanes are rising night and day, like hornets round a hornets' nest.

Your mere assertion that I give him overlarge sums of spending money. in no way seems to justify the severe treatment. to which he's obviously been subjected.

Any attempts to supply provisions of inferior quality will be met by severe rebuke.

Severe rebuke. Do I make myself clear, gentlemen?

If I read his character correctly, he means to be severe upon us.

Now, now, dear, please don't be so severe.

If I'm severe with you sometimes. it's because I have your own welfare at heart.

It looks to me like a severe nervous breakdown.

Those very severe articles of yours?

I'm going to look in on you later and if you're not asleep, - I shall be very severe.

Tina if I've been severe with you at times I haven't meant it.

Or there will be severe consequences.

Concussion of the brain and severe hemorrhage.

My punishment was too severe.

Most severe methods are to be expected.

Now, this may sound severe, but you've got to pull yourself together and settle down.

I'll try to put it simply. Mrs. Holland had a tropical fever. very severe.

If so, the verdict of history will be severe indeed.

Just your typical case of an amateur running amok, although the consequences for the victims are severe.

But he's in severe renal failure and can't travel to Hope Zion, so we will coordinate with St. Donald's to deliver his kidney.

Don't you make me have to speak to you severe.

But I'd be equally severe with those. who have funds but write no checks!

Sir, to tell you the truth. your romances have given me, as well as you, a severe case of nerves.

You deserve severe punishment, but there's no need to punish an amateur like you.

The State further offers in evidence the testimony of The Coroner. Who confirms that allegation. That the deceased suffered a severe blow on the head.. prior to death.

Prisoner at the bar, these are parlous times, and we have no desire to be severe.

Indications are that the two squadrons of Japanese bombers attacking at dawn caused severe damage to Naval units and air forces based in Honolulu and took a heavy toll in lives.

Much more severe than the other papers.

Mrs. Van Ryn has a severe cold.

But you are too severe.

I don't want you to think that I'm severe or old-maid schoolteacherish. or anything. It's just, well, I.

Everything looked serious and severe.

Don't be so severe.

News and current affairs

But the West's key features, democracy and the rule of law, have taken a far more severe battering at the hands of their defenders than by their attackers.

NEW YORK - Today's world hunger crisis is unprecedentedly severe and requires urgent measures.

While none of these shocks appears to have been severe enough to have derailed the current global recovery, the combined effect is worrisome, especially in a still-weakened post-crisis world.

The consequences of Europe's rush to austerity will be long-lasting and possibly severe.

Yet global deterioration of coral reefs is severe and ongoing.

Corals grow slowly, so reefs sustaining severe bleaching will not recover before they bleach again.

And, however severe economic sanctions might be, they might not bring Iran to its knees.

He instituted a severe crackdown on gun ownership, and forced would-be gun owners to submit to a rigorous application process, and to document why they would need a gun.

For the international human rights movement, this is a severe setback.

The result has been utter failure: military defeat and a severe degradation of America's moral standing.

This would hurt and weaken Saddam, and establish unmistakably the message that defiance of the UN carries severe penalties.

Countries whose public finances seemed fundamentally sound as late as last year have come under severe fiscal pressure.

So the end of this severe global recession will be closer at the end of this year than it is now, the recovery will be anemic rather than robust in advanced economies, and there is a rising risk of a double-dip recession.

Even as development improves conditions, however, reducing carbon emissions would become increasingly important over the longer term as the impact of climate change become more severe.

The current drought covering much of East Africa - far more severe than past droughts - has been directly associated with climate change.

The decision triggered a severe response from China, where students held demonstrations against his visit.

That story, published more than 80 years ago, remains relevant today in India, where female fetuses face severe risks.

Left unchecked, it will leave India's next generation of men with a severe shortage of women.

Japan also suffered a number of severe productivity shocks, which had much to do with its longer-term problems.

The first eleven months of the recession that followed were as severe as the first eleven months of the Great Depression that started in 1929.

America's financial crisis has triggered a severe credit crunch that is making the US recession worse, while the deepening recession is leading to larger losses in financial markets - thus undermining the wider economy.

SEOUL - The long-delayed meeting of North Korea's ruling Worker's Party is now underway, and comes at a time of severe tension between North Korea and the international community.

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