severe
/sɪˈvɪɹ/ adjective B1- Very bad or intense.
- Strict or harsh. · a severe taskmaster
- Sober, plain in appearance, austere. · a severe old maiden aunt· severe clothing
Comparative severer · Superlative severest
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Bagheera gave him half a dozen love-taps from a panther’s point of view (they would hardly have waked one of his own cubs), but for a seven-year-old boy they amounted to as severe a beating as you could wish to avoid.
On the other hand, this constraint could not be severe or the young man could not have got loose and come down to have a look at his friend.
And it isn’t half severe enough either for what you’ve done!”
A severe and unseasonable attack of grippe had confined that good lady to her house ever since the occasion of her last visit to Green Gables.
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