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severe

/sɪˈvɪɹ/ adjectif B1

En français : grave, sévère

  1. Very bad or intense.
  2. Strict or harsh. · a severe taskmaster
  3. Sober, plain in appearance, austere. · a severe old maiden aunt· severe clothing

Comparatif severer · Superlatif severest

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Dans la bibliothèque

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.
The Jungle Book, p. 62 · B2
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.
The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes, p. 27 · B2
And it isn’t half severe enough either for what you’ve done!”
Anne of Green Gables, p. 100 · C1
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.
Anne of Green Gables, p. 62 · C1

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