severe
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Bang has limited contact with her grown-up daughter, and fell into severe depression after major back surgery, spending hours alone staring at the ceiling in pain.
From Barron's • Jun. 11, 2026
You are forgoing any increases in the stock market and hedging your bets against a severe downturn in the market.
From MarketWatch • Jun. 11, 2026
Damage to the cartilage in his knees was causing such severe pain that he could barely walk up and down stairs.
From BBC • Jun. 10, 2026
While the current drop-off is nowhere near as severe as it was in 2015—with BTC falling 50% within two weeks at that time—the effects are plenty tough for short-term investors.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 10, 2026
The patients included those who suffered with epilepsy, mental illness, blindness, deafness, mental disabilities, and severe physical deformities.
From "Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow" by Susan Campbell Bartoletti
Vocabulary lists containing severe
The SAT: Words to Capture Tone, List 3
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Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
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The SAT: Multiple-Meaning Words, List 4
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