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Definition of severe in English: severeadjectiveseverer, severest sɪˈvɪəsəˈvɪr 1(of something bad or undesirable) very great; intense. a severe shortage of technicians a severe attack of asthma the damage is not too severe Example sentencesExamples - The reaction from the employees and audiences, however, was intense and severe.
- Mrs Al-Munchi is believed to have suffered a severe asthma attack earlier in the day.
- Here at home, millions face starvation due to severe food shortages - the result of bad governance in our country.
- A girl died from a severe asthma attack that may have been triggered by bullying, an inquest heard.
- District councils are braced for severe cash shortages next year when changes designed to simplify funding are likely to leave them seriously out of pocket.
- The pain is of severe intensity and lasts anywhere from 15 to 180 minutes.
- Seemingly cataclysmic, its occurrence prevented a far more severe and intense shock in the future as French society slowly adjusted to the strains and stresses of modernization.
- The baby spent 19 days in the hospital's neonatal intensive care unit with severe brain damage, resulting in permanent disabilities.
- Another man, in his 20s, was airlifted to Basildon Hospital where he is in intensive care with a severe head injury and with a broken arm and leg.
- Very rarely, a person with asthma will have a severe attack in which none of the treatments work and the attack continues to get worse.
- I also had severe difficulty during intense exercise.
- In all animals, retinal light damage was the most severe when intense light exposure began during the dark period.
- Henry Bartlam was only six weeks old when he suffered a severe asthma attack which nearly killed him.
- Training with high intensity can lead to severe muscle damage and soreness.
- People at the scene, at about 9.30 pm when the fire was noticed, were beaten back from the house by intense black smoke and severe heat.
- She's in intensive care with a severe head injury.
- One of the major disincentives is the severe shortage of competent technical and managerial staff.
- However a few people with psoriasis have a more severe form that requires intensive medical and nursing care.
- Some people with asthma never have a severe attack, only a little wheezing or the occasional bout of coughing.
- In a separate section, the report reveals that farmed halibut, sea bass and sea bream can suffer from severe cataracts when reared intensively, causing blindness and corneal bleeding.
Synonyms acute, very bad, serious, grave, critical, dire, drastic, grievous, extreme, dreadful, terrible, awful, frightful, appalling, sore alarming, worrying, distressing, dangerous, perilous, life-threatening Medicine peracute, profound archaic or humorous parlous fierce, violent, strong, wild, powerful, forceful, intense tempestuous, turbulent, tumultuous excruciating, agonizing, violent, intense, dreadful, awful, terrible, frightful, unbearable, intolerable, unendurable stabbing, shooting informal splitting, thumping, pounding - 1.1 Demanding great ability, skill, or resilience.
Example sentencesExamples - Barton faces a severe test, with the likes of Seebald and Fondmort among the opposition for an event which could well be the race of the meeting.
- Henderson is expecting a severe test next weekend, arguing that both English centres bring more than hard, straight running.
- Despite the severe physical demands of his work, Tse said that he at least found his heart at ease because of the genuine contentment he derives from his work.
- The matches, all played in front of crowds in the impressive Hong Kong stadium, combine fast-handling rugby with severe tests of stamina.
- In fact, although at times he attempted to abstain from sex for the benefit of his art, Matisse found chastity a severe test.
- Animals that fly in the air have still other similarities dictated by the severe demands of flight.
- The historic meeting will be a severe test of the president's nerve.
- Such an austere destination was, he warned, far more elusive, demanding severe discipline and total renunciation.
- And Jewell knows he is now facing up to a severe test of his managerial skills as Wigan aim to set off on a winning run.
- The period was earlier this year and has been a severe test for China's transportation system and also for the passengers.
- His strong, direct running and sturdy defence could be vital to the Irish cause on a day their rearguard faces a severe test.
- His powers of recollection will undergo a severe test this week.
- Little's fundraising skills were put to a severe test.
- After their crushing victory over Limerick, Tipperary were expected to provide Kerry with a severe test.
- Jose Mourinho's managerial skills would face a severe test.
- This year the smaller bell tower was unveiled and a freak hail storm earlier this year was its first severe test.
- The home team were comfortable winners over Fahy Rovers on Sunday and they will provide Erris with a severe test in the next round.
- These exams were undoubtedly among of the most severe mathematical tests.
- This post is therefore a severe test of that resolution and fortitude.
- Number three is a shorter 5,252 yard, par 68, but is a severe test of accurate shot making.
Synonyms very difficult, demanding, hard, tough, arduous, formidable, taxing, exacting, rigorous, punishing, onerous, gruelling, burdensome, heavy back-breaking, uphill, stiff
2(of punishment of a person) strict or harsh. the charges would have warranted a severe sentence Example sentencesExamples - We bore harsh criticism for our efforts and some of us suffered severe punishment.
- The four men lied their way onto the premises, and afterwards committed heinous crimes, which deserved severe punishment, said Coetzee.
- But the most important way to tackle the issue is to conduct surprise inspections frequently and impose severe punishment on the guilty.
- I hope that when the culprits are caught, they are given the most severe punishment available to the courts.
- She deserves a much more severe punishment because that child will be suffering the effects of the mother's behaviors for its entire life.
- These are very serious and grave matters which call for severe punishment.
- Judge Openshaw said: ‘These are, in our judgment, disgraceful offences which deserve severe punishment.’
- Earlier this year, a similar bill was rejected by the council because it called for the death penalty as the most severe punishment for anyone convicted by the tribunal.
- Even if many who have transgressed as he did avoid a term in prison, I believe when his name was placed on the register it was a more severe punishment than any custodial sentence.
- It was a strict regime and punishments were severe.
- In 221 AD, Zhang was killed by his generals because they couldn't fulfil an impossible mission and feared severe punishment.
- These soldiers - who had long since regretted their actions - would likely face severe punishment from the American authorities.
- Certainly, there should be stricter laws and more severe punishments for breaking them, if we want to live in a violence-free society.
- In this reform, Shang Yang emphasized severe punishments, believing that draconian penalties helped to prevent crimes.
- The executive member said people in society felt as though there was no severe punishment for capital offences.
- The contracts threaten severe punishment for any such breach.
- There are far more severe punishments than capital punishment.
- He demanded severe action against those guilty officers.
- Interior Ministry Chief Secretary Boiko Borissov has proposed severe punishments for everyone involved in illegal logging.
- After all, the one to whom he said this had apparently committed a crime that deserved the most severe punishment available, crucifixion.
Synonyms harsh, hard, bitter, bitterly cold, cold, bleak, freezing, icy, arctic, polar, Siberian, extreme, nasty harsh, scathing, sharp, strong, fierce, ferocious, stringent, savage, blistering, searing, stinging, scorching, devastating, mordant, trenchant, caustic, biting, cutting, withering, rigorous, unsparing smart, sound extortionate, excessive, unreasonable, inordinate, outrageous, sky-high, harsh, stiff punitive, punishing, penal British swingeing strict, stern, rigorous, harsh, hard, inflexible, uncompromising, inexorable, implacable, rigid, unbending, relentless, unrelenting, unyielding, merciless, pitiless, ruthless, draconian, oppressive, repressive, punitive, rough, nasty tyrannical, iron-fisted, iron-handed, brutal, inhuman, cruel, savage Australian/New Zealand informal solid - 2.1 (of a person) formal and unsmiling.
Example sentencesExamples - His joyfully mysterious grin strangely comforted her because it made him appear gentler, less severe.
- She was tall and stout with grey hair and a severe expression on her face.
Synonyms stern, dour, grim, grim-faced, forbidding, disapproving, tight-lipped, unsmiling, unfriendly, sombre, grave, sober, serious, austere, stiff, flinty, stony, steely, glowering, frowning cold, aloof, frosty, icy, frigid
3Very plain in style or appearance. she wore another severe suit, grey this time Example sentencesExamples - From 1936 to 1939 he worked for the Federal Art Project, painting several abstract murals in a severe geometrical style.
- He wears impeccably tailored suits in the traditional, severe Soviet style.
- Of simple, indeed severe, design, it is informative to compare it to the second font which was carved in 1225.
- A girl in a rather severe suit wanted to see his driver's licence as proof of identity.
- The lighting is very bright which together with the high-tech wine dispensing machinery makes Vino Venue appear clinical and severe.
- S. Carlo championed a severe style of painting while Federico founded the Ambrosiana and donated his own collection to that institution in 1618.
- Ramirez caught up with him outside a severe door of grey metal.
- In the 1850s, Thomas Holt had designed the main building for Peace College in Raleigh in a severe neo-classical style.
- As always, his attiring room looked windswept and severe: a plain chest, a narrow mirror, a low divan spread with furs.
Synonyms plain, simple, restrained, unadorned, undecorated, unembellished, unornamented, austere, chaste, spare, stark, ultra-plain, unfussy, without frills, spartan, ascetic, monastic, puritanical functional, clinical, uncluttered classic
Origin Mid 16th century (in sense 2): from French sévère or Latin severus. Rhymes adhere, Agadir, Anglosphere, appear, arrear, auctioneer, austere, balladeer, bandolier, Bashkir, beer, besmear, bier, blear, bombardier, brigadier, buccaneer, cameleer, career, cashier, cavalier, chandelier, charioteer, cheer, chevalier, chiffonier, clavier, clear, Coetzee, cohere, commandeer, conventioneer, Cordelier, corsetière, Crimea, dear, deer, diarrhoea (US diarrhea), domineer, Dorothea, drear, ear, electioneer, emir, endear, engineer, fear, fleer, Freer, fusilier, gadgeteer, Galatea, gazetteer, gear, gondolier, gonorrhoea (US gonorrhea), Greer, grenadier, hand-rear, hear, here, Hosea, idea, interfere, Izmir, jeer, Judaea, Kashmir, Keir, kir, Korea, Lear, leer, Maria, marketeer, Medea, Meir, Melilla, mere, Mia, Mir, mishear, mountaineer, muleteer, musketeer, mutineer, near, orienteer, pamphleteer, panacea, paneer, peer, persevere, pier, Pierre, pioneer, pistoleer, privateer, profiteer, puppeteer, racketeer, ratafia, rear, revere, rhea, rocketeer, Sapir, scrutineer, sear, seer, sere, Shamir, shear, sheer, sincere, smear, sneer, sonneteer, souvenir, spear, sphere, steer, stere, summiteer, Tangier, tear, tier, Trier, Tyr, veer, veneer, Vere, Vermeer, vizier, volunteer, Wear, weir, we're, year, Zaïre Definition of severe in US English: severeadjectivesəˈvirsəˈvɪr 1(of something bad or undesirable) very great; intense. a severe shortage of technicians a severe attack of asthma Example sentencesExamples - Seemingly cataclysmic, its occurrence prevented a far more severe and intense shock in the future as French society slowly adjusted to the strains and stresses of modernization.
- Some people with asthma never have a severe attack, only a little wheezing or the occasional bout of coughing.
- People at the scene, at about 9.30 pm when the fire was noticed, were beaten back from the house by intense black smoke and severe heat.
- Another man, in his 20s, was airlifted to Basildon Hospital where he is in intensive care with a severe head injury and with a broken arm and leg.
- I also had severe difficulty during intense exercise.
- Henry Bartlam was only six weeks old when he suffered a severe asthma attack which nearly killed him.
- However a few people with psoriasis have a more severe form that requires intensive medical and nursing care.
- The reaction from the employees and audiences, however, was intense and severe.
- She's in intensive care with a severe head injury.
- The pain is of severe intensity and lasts anywhere from 15 to 180 minutes.
- District councils are braced for severe cash shortages next year when changes designed to simplify funding are likely to leave them seriously out of pocket.
- Here at home, millions face starvation due to severe food shortages - the result of bad governance in our country.
- A girl died from a severe asthma attack that may have been triggered by bullying, an inquest heard.
- Mrs Al-Munchi is believed to have suffered a severe asthma attack earlier in the day.
- The baby spent 19 days in the hospital's neonatal intensive care unit with severe brain damage, resulting in permanent disabilities.
- In a separate section, the report reveals that farmed halibut, sea bass and sea bream can suffer from severe cataracts when reared intensively, causing blindness and corneal bleeding.
- Very rarely, a person with asthma will have a severe attack in which none of the treatments work and the attack continues to get worse.
- One of the major disincentives is the severe shortage of competent technical and managerial staff.
- In all animals, retinal light damage was the most severe when intense light exposure began during the dark period.
- Training with high intensity can lead to severe muscle damage and soreness.
Synonyms acute, very bad, serious, grave, critical, dire, drastic, grievous, extreme, dreadful, terrible, awful, frightful, appalling, sore fierce, violent, strong, wild, powerful, forceful, intense excruciating, agonizing, violent, intense, dreadful, awful, terrible, frightful, unbearable, intolerable, unendurable - 1.1 Demanding great ability, skill, or resilience.
Example sentencesExamples - This year the smaller bell tower was unveiled and a freak hail storm earlier this year was its first severe test.
- Despite the severe physical demands of his work, Tse said that he at least found his heart at ease because of the genuine contentment he derives from his work.
- And Jewell knows he is now facing up to a severe test of his managerial skills as Wigan aim to set off on a winning run.
- His strong, direct running and sturdy defence could be vital to the Irish cause on a day their rearguard faces a severe test.
- His powers of recollection will undergo a severe test this week.
- Jose Mourinho's managerial skills would face a severe test.
- Animals that fly in the air have still other similarities dictated by the severe demands of flight.
- This post is therefore a severe test of that resolution and fortitude.
- The historic meeting will be a severe test of the president's nerve.
- Barton faces a severe test, with the likes of Seebald and Fondmort among the opposition for an event which could well be the race of the meeting.
- Number three is a shorter 5,252 yard, par 68, but is a severe test of accurate shot making.
- Henderson is expecting a severe test next weekend, arguing that both English centres bring more than hard, straight running.
- The period was earlier this year and has been a severe test for China's transportation system and also for the passengers.
- The matches, all played in front of crowds in the impressive Hong Kong stadium, combine fast-handling rugby with severe tests of stamina.
- These exams were undoubtedly among of the most severe mathematical tests.
- Such an austere destination was, he warned, far more elusive, demanding severe discipline and total renunciation.
- In fact, although at times he attempted to abstain from sex for the benefit of his art, Matisse found chastity a severe test.
- Little's fundraising skills were put to a severe test.
- After their crushing victory over Limerick, Tipperary were expected to provide Kerry with a severe test.
- The home team were comfortable winners over Fahy Rovers on Sunday and they will provide Erris with a severe test in the next round.
Synonyms very difficult, demanding, hard, tough, arduous, formidable, taxing, exacting, rigorous, punishing, onerous, gruelling, burdensome, heavy
2Strict or harsh. the charges would have warranted a severe sentence he is unusually severe on what he regards as tendentious pseudo-learning Example sentencesExamples - It was a strict regime and punishments were severe.
- We bore harsh criticism for our efforts and some of us suffered severe punishment.
- I hope that when the culprits are caught, they are given the most severe punishment available to the courts.
- The executive member said people in society felt as though there was no severe punishment for capital offences.
- He demanded severe action against those guilty officers.
- There are far more severe punishments than capital punishment.
- These soldiers - who had long since regretted their actions - would likely face severe punishment from the American authorities.
- Interior Ministry Chief Secretary Boiko Borissov has proposed severe punishments for everyone involved in illegal logging.
- Judge Openshaw said: ‘These are, in our judgment, disgraceful offences which deserve severe punishment.’
- She deserves a much more severe punishment because that child will be suffering the effects of the mother's behaviors for its entire life.
- In 221 AD, Zhang was killed by his generals because they couldn't fulfil an impossible mission and feared severe punishment.
- But the most important way to tackle the issue is to conduct surprise inspections frequently and impose severe punishment on the guilty.
- Earlier this year, a similar bill was rejected by the council because it called for the death penalty as the most severe punishment for anyone convicted by the tribunal.
- Even if many who have transgressed as he did avoid a term in prison, I believe when his name was placed on the register it was a more severe punishment than any custodial sentence.
- Certainly, there should be stricter laws and more severe punishments for breaking them, if we want to live in a violence-free society.
- These are very serious and grave matters which call for severe punishment.
- In this reform, Shang Yang emphasized severe punishments, believing that draconian penalties helped to prevent crimes.
- The contracts threaten severe punishment for any such breach.
- The four men lied their way onto the premises, and afterwards committed heinous crimes, which deserved severe punishment, said Coetzee.
- After all, the one to whom he said this had apparently committed a crime that deserved the most severe punishment available, crucifixion.
Synonyms harsh, hard, bitter, bitterly cold, cold, bleak, freezing, icy, arctic, polar, siberian, extreme, nasty harsh, scathing, sharp, strong, fierce, ferocious, stringent, savage, blistering, searing, stinging, scorching, devastating, mordant, trenchant, caustic, biting, cutting, withering, rigorous, unsparing extortionate, excessive, unreasonable, inordinate, outrageous, sky-high, harsh, stiff strict, stern, rigorous, harsh, hard, inflexible, uncompromising, inexorable, implacable, rigid, unbending, relentless, unrelenting, unyielding, merciless, pitiless, ruthless, draconian, oppressive, repressive, punitive, rough, nasty 3Very plain in style or appearance. she wore another severe suit, gray this time Example sentencesExamples - From 1936 to 1939 he worked for the Federal Art Project, painting several abstract murals in a severe geometrical style.
- He wears impeccably tailored suits in the traditional, severe Soviet style.
- Ramirez caught up with him outside a severe door of grey metal.
- A girl in a rather severe suit wanted to see his driver's licence as proof of identity.
- As always, his attiring room looked windswept and severe: a plain chest, a narrow mirror, a low divan spread with furs.
- The lighting is very bright which together with the high-tech wine dispensing machinery makes Vino Venue appear clinical and severe.
- Of simple, indeed severe, design, it is informative to compare it to the second font which was carved in 1225.
- In the 1850s, Thomas Holt had designed the main building for Peace College in Raleigh in a severe neo-classical style.
- S. Carlo championed a severe style of painting while Federico founded the Ambrosiana and donated his own collection to that institution in 1618.
Synonyms plain, simple, restrained, unadorned, undecorated, unembellished, unornamented, austere, chaste, spare, stark, ultra-plain, unfussy, without frills, spartan, ascetic, monastic, puritanical
Origin Mid 16th century (in severe (sense 2)): from French sévère or Latin severus. |