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SEVERE

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severe adjectiv

1. greu, serios, grav, crunt;

severe loss pierdere gravă.

2. aspru, tăios; înverşunat;

severe weather vreme aspră;

severe competition concurenţă înverşunată.

3. sever, aspru; rigid, strict, riguros, auster; nemilos, neînduplecat;

severe discipline disciplină severă / strictă;

to be severe upon a fi aspru cu, a fi foarte critic faţă de.

4. simplu, sobru;

severe style stil sever / sobru.

5. sarcastic, caustic, coroziv, muşcător; satiric;

severe remarks remarci sarcastice.

6. (fot.) contrast, cu contraste puternice.

 Exemple de propoziții și/sau fraze: 

Mr. Copperfield and myself, said Miss Murdstone, with severe composure, are connexions.

(David Copperfield, de Charles Dickens)

Is Miss Temple as severe to you as Miss Scatcherd?

(Jane Eyre, de Charlotte Brontë)

A substance used to treat moderate to severe pain.

(Narcotic, NCI Dictionary)

The disease is more common and more severe in men.

(Ankylosing Spondylitis, NIH: National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Disease)

Her sufferings have been very severe.

(Sense and Sensibility, de Jane Austen)

“You must not be too severe upon yourself,” replied Elizabeth.

(Pride and Prejudice, de Jane Austen)

I hope, said he presently, I have not been severe upon poor Mrs. Churchill.

(Emma, de Jane Austen)

My body was stiff from exertion as well as from cold, and my aching muscles gave me the severest torture whenever I used them, and I used them continually.

(The Sea-Wolf, de Jack London)

This was his severest fight, and though in the end he killed them both he was himself half killed in doing it.

(White Fang, de Jack London)

I daresay my severe illness prevented him from being that.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

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