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Severe   /səvˈɪr/   Listen
Severe

adjective
(compar. severer; superl. severest)
1.
Intensely or extremely bad or unpleasant in degree or quality.  Synonyms: terrible, wicked.  "A severe case of flu" , "A terrible cough" , "Under wicked fire from the enemy's guns" , "A wicked cough"
2.
Very strong or vigorous.  Synonyms: hard, knockout.  "A hard left to the chin" , "A knockout punch" , "A severe blow"
3.
Severely simple.  Synonyms: austere, stark, stern.
4.
Unsparing and uncompromising in discipline or judgment.  Synonym: spartan.  "A hefty six-footer with a rather severe mien" , "A strict disciplinarian" , "A Spartan upbringing"
5.
Causing fear or anxiety by threatening great harm.  Synonyms: dangerous, grave, grievous, life-threatening, serious.  "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"
6.
Very bad in degree or extent.  "The house suffered severe damage"



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"Severe" Quotes from Famous Books



... taking the extended hand and pressing it tenderly, "but you are asking what is impossible in this case. Do you not remember that I am an old friend of your father's? It grieves me to the heart that his attack is so severe that I fear all within the reach of human skill ...
— What Can She Do? • Edward Payson Roe
... A strange and tragic affair last night. The heat being severe, I left my tent about midnight and went down to the dock where my little sailboat lay, with the object of cooling myself on the water. There was a hot land breeze; I sailed out into the bay and cruised north along the coves which I have wired. As I rounded a little ...
— The Dark Star • Robert W. Chambers
... losses and crosses Be lessons right severe, There's wit there you'll get there, You'll find no ...
— The Doctrines of Predestination, Reprobation, and Election • Robert Wallace
... recited. What it was all about I could only vaguely guess, for I did not understand more than ten per cent of the words used, but I assumed from the tone and gestures that he was relating to me all the incidents and symptoms of his illness. And a very severe illness it must have been, for it requires a very considerable amount of physical suffering to make the patient Russian peasant groan. Before he had finished his tale a woman entered, ...
— Russia • Donald Mackenzie Wallace
... favourites; keep men and things apart; guard against the prestige of great names 86; see that your judgments are your own, and do not shrink from disagreement; no trusting without testing; be more severe to ideas than to actions 87; do not overlook the strength of the bad cause or the weakness of the good 88; never be surprised by the crumbling of an idol or the disclosure of a skeleton; judge talent at its best and character at its worst; suspect power more than vice ...
— Lectures on Modern history • Baron John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton


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