severe
IPA: sʌvˈɪr
noun
- A surname.
adjective
- Very bad or intense.
- Strict or harsh.
- Sober, plain in appearance, austere.
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Examples of "severe" in Sentences
- It's not what I call severe sickness, but he is coughing and blowing his nose.
- The phrase "severe reality distortion field" is probably not one you bump into every day.
- We spoke to one leader yesterday who saw Robertson's remarks and the result of it as what he called a severe blow.
- They say they will work with what they call severe flaws in the plan to change them during the legislative process.
- He defended government actions, saying they are necessary to avoid what he called a severe disruption to the financial markets.
- I opened up Firefox this evening to a severe weather alert from ForecastFox…which surprised me, given that it’s lovely weather: a bit of clouds, maybe some rain later, but nothing I’d call *severe*!
- Pressure for his resignation has been building since Monday, when a government commission blamed Mr. Olmert for what it called his severe failures during Israel's war against Lebanon's Hezbollah guerrillas last summer.
- That means we could see 20 or more tornadoes, two of which could be what we call severe tornadoes or a very large wind event and that's one of the big things that we're concerned about today, Rob, is that duratio (ph), as we call them or a large-scale wind event that can cause miles and miles of damage.
- For example, we've estimated the distribution of a strong ground shaking because it's not always the epicenter, it's distributed along the fault, and we can estimate how much shaking actually occurred, and we estimated that close to three-fourths of a million people experienced vital to extreme shaking with very heavy damage and an additional 2 million people on top of that experienced what we term severe shaking, also expecting heavy damage.
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