Severe
adjective
Very serious or extreme.
He is in hospital with severe injuries.
Often appears as...
- severe pain
- severe weather
adjective
Strict or harsh.
The punishment for stealing was severe.
Often appears as...
- severe punishment
- severe penalties
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Disapproving
adjective
Plain, simple and not decorated.
She wore a severe black suit to the meeting.
Often appears as...
- severe style
- severe dress
adjective
Very serious or extreme.
He is in hospital with severe injuries.
Often appears as...
- severe pain
- severe weather
adjective
Strict or harsh.
The punishment for stealing was severe.
Often appears as...
- severe punishment
- severe penalties
Usage tips
Disapproving
adjective
Plain, simple and not decorated.
She wore a severe black suit to the meeting.
Often appears as...
- severe style
- severe dress
Definition 1 of 3
Pro Tip 1/3Intensity
Used to highlight the extreme nature or degree of a situation or condition.
After the earthquake, the town suffered severe damage.
Pro Tip 2/3Urgency
Can indicate a situation that requires immediate attention or action.
The patient's condition is severe and needs urgent surgery.
Pro Tip 3/3Not Mild
Clarifies that the situation is far from mild; it's to an extreme extent.
The severe weather warning advised everyone to stay indoors.
Pro Tip 1/3Intensity
Used to highlight the extreme nature or degree of a situation or condition.
After the earthquake, the town suffered severe damage.
Pro Tip 2/3Urgency
Can indicate a situation that requires immediate attention or action.
The patient's condition is severe and needs urgent surgery.
Pro Tip 3/3Not Mild
Clarifies that the situation is far from mild; it's to an extreme extent.
The severe weather warning advised everyone to stay indoors.
Pro Tip 1/3Intensity
Used to highlight the extreme nature or degree of a situation or condition.
After the earthquake, the town suffered severe damage.
Pro Tip 2/3Urgency
Can indicate a situation that requires immediate attention or action.
The patient's condition is severe and needs urgent surgery.
Pro Tip 3/3Not Mild
Clarifies that the situation is far from mild; it's to an extreme extent.
The severe weather warning advised everyone to stay indoors.
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Rescuing Adorable Grey...
whether it's severely malnourished for example or if it's okay and we can also tube feed it as well give it some rehydration fluids some of the animals that we come across are quite dehydrated and skinny and really exhausted as well so to have that early perk up before we take it into a rehabilitation center really can help while they're in transport seeing
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How big is infinity? -...
and it got so bad for him that he suffered severe depression, and spent the last half of his life in and out of mental institutions. But eventually, his ideas won out. Today, they're considered fundamental and magnificent. All research mathematicians accept these ideas, every college math major learns them, and I've explained them to you in a few minutes.
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How does your brain...
For some people who suffer from severe chronic pain, that is pain that doesn't go away months after their injury should have healed, none of the regular treatments work. Traditionally, medical science has been about testing treatments on large groups to determine what would help a majority of patients. But this has usually left out
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Drew Dudley: Everyday...
He turned beet red, he wouldn't even look at me. He just kind of held the lollipop out like this." "I felt so bad for this dude that I took the lollipop. As soon as I did, you got this incredibly severe look on your face, looked at my mom and dad and said, 'Look at that! Look at that! First day away from home,
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Jellyfish predate...
but others cause severe skin damage. The venom of one box jellyfish can kill a human in under five minutes, making it one of the most potent poisons of any animal in the world. Other jellyfish superpowers are less lethal. One species of jellyfish glows green when it's agitated,
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How Magellan circumnaviga...
and convert the rebellious chief of Mactan, the captain readily agreed. The adventure would be his last. Overconfident and severely outnumbered, Magellan's force was overwhelmed, and the native's bamboo spears ended the captain's life. Yet the voyage had to continue.
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What would happen if you...
causing cells to swell. In severe cases, the kidneys can't keep up with the resulting volumes of dilute urine. Water intoxication then occurs, possibly causing headache, vomiting, and, in rare instances, seizures or death. But that's a pretty extreme situation.
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Heal your brain with...
game designed to help hospital patients who are undergoing treatment for severe burns which is widely considered the single most painful medical procedure patients place no world by wearing a virtual reality headset and using a joystick to navigate the frozen
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The power of the placebo...
can be precisely compared. But of course, we know the placebos exert their own influence, too. Thanks to the placebo effect, patients have experienced relief from a range of ailments, including heart problems, asthma, and severe pain,
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Global Warming 101 PIPE...
temperatures mean for the planet some climate models predict subtle changes others forecast rising sea levels which could flood coastal areas around the world weather patterns could change making hurricanes more frequent severe
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Rescuing Adorable Grey...
whether it's severely malnourished for example or if it's okay and we can also tube feed it as well give it some rehydration fluids some of the animals that we come across are quite dehydrated and skinny and really exhausted as well so to have that early perk up before we take it into a rehabilitation center really can help while they're in transport seeing
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How big is infinity? -...
and it got so bad for him that he suffered severe depression, and spent the last half of his life in and out of mental institutions. But eventually, his ideas won out. Today, they're considered fundamental and magnificent. All research mathematicians accept these ideas, every college math major learns them, and I've explained them to you in a few minutes.
Video examples
How does your brain...
For some people who suffer from severe chronic pain, that is pain that doesn't go away months after their injury should have healed, none of the regular treatments work. Traditionally, medical science has been about testing treatments on large groups to determine what would help a majority of patients. But this has usually left out
Video examples
Drew Dudley: Everyday...
He turned beet red, he wouldn't even look at me. He just kind of held the lollipop out like this." "I felt so bad for this dude that I took the lollipop. As soon as I did, you got this incredibly severe look on your face, looked at my mom and dad and said, 'Look at that! Look at that! First day away from home,
Video examples
Jellyfish predate...
but others cause severe skin damage. The venom of one box jellyfish can kill a human in under five minutes, making it one of the most potent poisons of any animal in the world. Other jellyfish superpowers are less lethal. One species of jellyfish glows green when it's agitated,
Video examples
How Magellan circumnaviga...
and convert the rebellious chief of Mactan, the captain readily agreed. The adventure would be his last. Overconfident and severely outnumbered, Magellan's force was overwhelmed, and the native's bamboo spears ended the captain's life. Yet the voyage had to continue.
Video examples
What would happen if you...
causing cells to swell. In severe cases, the kidneys can't keep up with the resulting volumes of dilute urine. Water intoxication then occurs, possibly causing headache, vomiting, and, in rare instances, seizures or death. But that's a pretty extreme situation.
Video examples
Heal your brain with...
game designed to help hospital patients who are undergoing treatment for severe burns which is widely considered the single most painful medical procedure patients place no world by wearing a virtual reality headset and using a joystick to navigate the frozen
Video examples
The power of the placebo...
can be precisely compared. But of course, we know the placebos exert their own influence, too. Thanks to the placebo effect, patients have experienced relief from a range of ailments, including heart problems, asthma, and severe pain,
Video examples
Global Warming 101 PIPE...
temperatures mean for the planet some climate models predict subtle changes others forecast rising sea levels which could flood coastal areas around the world weather patterns could change making hurricanes more frequent severe
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Sanya Richards-Ross
American Athlete
For all of my life I'd been extremely healthy. I'd never had any health issues, so to go from being perfectly healthy to having this very rare disease was scary. In a lot of people it is very severe. Some people go blind, you can have neuro-lesions which affect your brain, so I was very nervous.
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Karen DeCrow
American Activist
It is crucial to be healthy, for pain wipes out the possibility for pleasure, and severe pain removes the possibility of turning to the world outside the body. So we must establish the idea that it is important to look well, not to look young.
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Jonathan Zittrain
American Educator
When I think about privacy on social media sites, there's kind of the usual suspect problems, which doesn't make them any less important or severe; it's just we kind of know their shape, and we kind of know how we're going to solve them.
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Henry Ward Beecher
American Clergyman
It is one of the severest tests of friendship to tell your friend his faults. So to love a man that you cannot bear to see a stain upon him, and to speak painful truth through loving words, that is friendship.
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Shirley Booth
American Actress
Why is it that men who can go through severe accidents, air raids, and any other major crisis always seems to think that they are at death's door when they have a simple head cold?
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Mike Parson
American Politician
Our children are our most precious resource, and we must work to help ensure their safety against every type of risk, including severe weather while they're in school.
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Ralph Thomas Walker
American Architect
When I severe my connections with the A.I.A. I do so with my own self respect, as a matter of pride and I am sure within your knowledge of my character.
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Susanne Bier
Danish Director
The foundations of our lives are far more fragile than we think. So we are severely shaken when life turns out to have a will of its own.
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Irving Penn
American Photographer
The severe portrait that is not the greatest joy in the world to the subject may be enormously interesting to the reader.
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Voltaire
French Writer
He who is not just is severe, he who is not wise is sad.
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Sanya Richards-Ross
American Athlete
For all of my life I'd been extremely healthy. I'd never had any health issues, so to go from being perfectly healthy to having this very rare disease was scary. In a lot of people it is very severe. Some people go blind, you can have neuro-lesions which affect your brain, so I was very nervous.
Quote examples
Karen DeCrow
American Activist
It is crucial to be healthy, for pain wipes out the possibility for pleasure, and severe pain removes the possibility of turning to the world outside the body. So we must establish the idea that it is important to look well, not to look young.
Quote examples
Jonathan Zittrain
American Educator
When I think about privacy on social media sites, there's kind of the usual suspect problems, which doesn't make them any less important or severe; it's just we kind of know their shape, and we kind of know how we're going to solve them.
Quote examples
Henry Ward Beecher
American Clergyman
It is one of the severest tests of friendship to tell your friend his faults. So to love a man that you cannot bear to see a stain upon him, and to speak painful truth through loving words, that is friendship.
Quote examples
Shirley Booth
American Actress
Why is it that men who can go through severe accidents, air raids, and any other major crisis always seems to think that they are at death's door when they have a simple head cold?
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Mike Parson
American Politician
Our children are our most precious resource, and we must work to help ensure their safety against every type of risk, including severe weather while they're in school.
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Ralph Thomas Walker
American Architect
When I severe my connections with the A.I.A. I do so with my own self respect, as a matter of pride and I am sure within your knowledge of my character.
Quote examples
Susanne Bier
Danish Director
The foundations of our lives are far more fragile than we think. So we are severely shaken when life turns out to have a will of its own.
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Irving Penn
American Photographer
The severe portrait that is not the greatest joy in the world to the subject may be enormously interesting to the reader.
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Voltaire
French Writer
He who is not just is severe, he who is not wise is sad.
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