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Definition of Severe

1. Adjective. Intensely or extremely bad or unpleasant in degree or quality. "A wicked cough"

2. Adjective. Very strong or vigorous. "A severe blow"

3. Adjective. Severely simple. "A stark interior"

4. Adjective. Unsparing and uncompromising in discipline or judgment. "A Spartan upbringing"

5. Adjective. Causing fear or anxiety by threatening great harm. "A life-threatening disease"

6. Adjective. Very bad in degree or extent. "The house suffered severe damage"

Definition of Severe

1. a. Serious in feeeling or manner; sedate; grave; austere; not light, lively, or cheerful.

Definition of Severe

1. Adjective. Very bad or intense. ¹

2. Adjective. Strict or harsh. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Severe

1. unsparing in the treatment of others [adj -VERER, -VEREST] : SEVERELY [adv]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Severe

severalized severalizes severalizing severall severally severals severalties severalty severance severance agreement

severance pay severance payment severance tax severances severaunce severe (current term) severe acute respiratory syndrome severe combined immunodeficiency disease severe combined immunodeficient mice severe postanoxic encephalopathy

severed severely severeness severenesses severer severest severeth severies severin

Literary usage of Severe

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Medical Clinics of North America by Richard J. Havel, K. Patrick Ober (1918)
"It occurs in severe diabetes; however, it may develop hi a diabetic whose diabetes is of moderate severity, though made artificially severe by accident or ..."

2. Dictionary of National Biography by LESLIE. STEPHEN (1886)
"424, a severe, but not too severe, article on the Life of Lord St. Vincent.] March 1802, when he obtained leave to re- turn to England, chiefly, ..."

3. The Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection: Or, The Preservation of by Charles Darwin (1889)
"... relations of all animals and plants throughout nature—Struggle for life most severe between individuals and varieties of the same species: often severe ..."

4. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection by Charles Darwin (1878)
"... animals and plants throughout nature — Struggle for life most severe between individuals and varieties of thi same species: often severe between species ..."

5. Origin of Species by Charles Darwin (1902)
"... relations of all animals and plants throughout nature—Struggle for life most severe between individuals and varieties of the same species: often severe ..."

6. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1918)
"ASTHMA, as'ma, or az'ma, a disorder of respiration characterized by more or less severe paroxysms of difficult breathing accompanied by coughing, ..."

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