Whipping is a severe punishment.
The weather is severe, the temperature is below zero.
There is a severe shortage of gas.Murder is a very severe crime.There will be a severe rise in temperature.
Example sentence - The severe hail storm damaged the aircraft causing it to be grounded.
Alleviate is the word for making less severe. It is the sentence for the word alleviate.
Her punishment was very severe for what she had done.
He suffered severe anxiety attacks triggered when a judge reopened investigations.
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Failure to attend to these details may easily set up a severe neurosis.
The aftermath of the horror was devastating.There were very severe problems in the aftermath of the tsunami.
"The teacher was severe when punishing the child"
The sheep had a severe deformity which caused its foreleg to turn inward, hampering its efforts to walk.
Due to severe thunderstorms, we need to abort the rescue mission.
I hope my insurance company covers this severe flooding.This arroyo is subject to intermittent flooding.