Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In a severe manner, in any sense of the word severe.
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- adverb In a
severe manner.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adverb causing great damage or hardship
- adverb with sternness; in a severe manner
- adverb to a severe or serious degree
Etymologies
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Examples
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A UN food agency yesterday released grim footage of what it described as severely malnourished North Korean children in areas hit by flooding.
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"I wasn't quite sure what the word 'severely' meant," she said with a smile.
NYT > Home Page By JEFF ZELENY 2012
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"I wasn't quite sure what the word 'severely' meant," she said with a smile.
NYT > Global Home By JEFF ZELENY 2012
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"I wasn't quite sure what the word 'severely' meant," she said with a smile.
NYT > Home Page By JEFF ZELENY 2012
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ROME - A U.N. food agency on Friday released grim footage of what it described as severely malnourished North Korean children in the country hit by recent flooding.
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Last year, U.S. counterterrorism officials said the number of foreigners heading to Iraq had trickled from hundreds to "tens" in what they described as a severely weakened al-Qaida in
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Last year, U.S. counterterrorism officials said the number of foreigners heading to Iraq had trickled from hundreds to "tens" in what they described as a severely weakened al-Qaida in
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Price referred to Coleman as her husband when she called 911 on May 26, saying the actor had fallen and was bleeding severely from the back of his head.
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I was hoping he would give me up and go, for by this time I was suffering severely from the cold.
YELLOW HANDKERCHIEF 2010
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Dialysis may be necessary to decrease mortality in severely poisoned patients.
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