severe

It's experienced as almost real events, like being pinched and squeezed, very severe, what feel like electrical pulses.

Jim: Well, they told me I had severe emphysema.

The southwestern United States, southern Africa, and eastern Australia experience longer, more frequent, and more severe droughts.

We've had 'let up' ease or get less severe.

Where are those areas where dependence is greatest and most severe?

Well, if something lets up, it eases or gets less severe.

Meantime, in and around Washington, D.C., the National Weather Service issued severe thunderstorm and flash flood warnings amid a cluster of storms that shook the area just before midnight.

It’s in the medicine you take when you’re sick and the vaccines that keep you from severe illness.

And when that's not-- seems scary enough, filling an entire screen with just four words-- weeks of severe diarrhea!

When the headline says that matter could be facing astronomical consequences, it's talking about how large and severe these consequences could be.

A cleanup is under way across parts of the Midwest and East Coast after severe storms swept through overnight and into today, toppling trees and leaving thousands without power.

AMNA NAWAZ: Thousands of residents in the predominantly Black city have been without electricity since severe storms hit the region on August 11, knocking out power to nearly 400,000 customers.

AMNA NAWAZ: Gary is also one of the poorest cities in America, and experts have noticed -- noted, rather, that severe weather and natural disasters tend to disproportionately hurt lower-income communities.

As people with an allergic response to warmheartedness, somewhere in our past, we are liable to have experienced severe letdown, against which we had to insulate ourselves with a plethora of clever defensive strategies.