what does severely mean?
SEVERELY as ADVERB
- Meaning
- to a severe or serious degree
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- fingers so badly frozen they had to be amputated
- badly injured
- a severely impaired heart
- is gravely ill
- was seriously ill
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- Meaning
- causing great damage or hardship
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- industries hit hard by the depression
- she was severely affected by the bank’’s failure
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- Meaning
- with sternness
- in a severe manner
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- `No,” she said sternly
- peered severely over her glasses
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