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Adjective
- very bad in degree or extent
- a severe worldwide depression
- the house suffered severe damage
- causing fear or anxiety by threatening great harm
- a severe case of pneumonia
- a life-threatening disease
- unsparing and uncompromising in discipline or judgment
- a parent severe to the pitch of hostility- H.G.Wells
- a hefty six-footer with a rather severe mien
- intensely or extremely bad or unpleasant in degree or quality
- under wicked fire from the enemy's guns