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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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... dangers are two which merit notice. The one is the fisherman's liability, while working among the "ruck," to run a sharp fish-bone into his hand, the other to gash himself with his knife while attempting to operate on the tail of a skate. Either accident may be slight or it may be severe. ...
— The Lively Poll - A Tale of the North Sea • R.M. Ballantyne
... philosophy of these results. For example, Professor Houghton, of Trinity College, Dublin, gives as one item of protracted experiments in animal chemistry, that two hours of severe study abstracts as much vital strength as is demanded by a whole day of manual labor. The reports of the Massachusetts Board of Education add other facts that, in this connection, should be deeply pondered. For example, in one public ...
— The American Woman's Home • Catherine E. Beecher and Harriet Beecher Stowe
... imitation. Another was practically the chore boy of the worker who was assigned to teach him. A third was under no direct supervision at all, but was expected to "keep busy," finding his work by himself. A fourth was put through a severe and valuable training by a ...
— The Psychology of Management - The Function of the Mind in Determining, Teaching and - Installing Methods of Least Waste • L. M. Gilbreth
... marks exhibited in Scripture of a true love to God: and though our regard for our common Lord is not put to the same severe test, as that of the Apostles and first Christians was; yet, if the same principle existed in us also, it would surely dispose us to act in the spirit of that conduct; and prompt us rather to be willing to ...
— A Practical View of the Prevailing Religious System of Professed Christians, in the Middle and Higher Classes in this Country, Contrasted with Real Christianity. • William Wilberforce
... division, having recovered from the severe handling they had received in the enemy reply to "Cambrai," eventually took over the line, and on February 12th the 7th marched back to Burbure, near Lillers. The end of the 42nd's tour of duty in this sector had been marked the previous night by a highly ...
— The Seventh Manchesters - July 1916 to March 1919 • S. J. Wilson


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