adverb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a seriously ill/critically ill patient
▪ The ward was packed with seriously ill patients.
badly/seriously hurt
▪ Fortunately, no one was seriously hurt.
badly/severely/seriously damage
▪ Smoking can severely damage your health.
be badly/seriously wounded
▪ Her husband was seriously wounded in the attack.
be badly/seriously/critically injured
▪ Two people have been critically injured in an accident.
go badly/seriously wrong
▪ The book is a thriller about a diamond robbery that goes badly wrong.
heavily/seriously/severely polluted
▪ The lake is seriously polluted.
seriously ill (=very ill)
▪ Any seriously ill patients are usually sent to a state hospital.
seriously overestimate sth
▪ We seriously overestimated how much confidence he had in himself.
seriously rich (=very rich)
▪ They stand to become seriously rich if the venture succeeds.
seriously
▪ I thought seriously about my doctor’s advice.
seriously/badly/slightly etc delayed
▪ The flight was badly delayed because of fog.
seriously/chronically/badly etc underfunded
▪ Our education system is seriously underfunded.
seriously/deeply worried
▪ Hazel was now seriously worried. Why hadn’t he come back?
seriously/deeply/greatly etc disturbed
seriously/heavily overweight (=very overweight)
▪ Being seriously overweight doubles the risk of heart disease.
seriously/highly/grossly etc misleading
▪ These figures are highly misleading.
severely/seriously depressed (=very depressed)
▪ He became severely depressed after losing his job.
take sb/sth seriously/badly/personally etc
▪ I was joking, but he took me seriously.
▪ Ben took the news very badly.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
ill
▪ Becky Blandford, who's still seriously ill more than forty eight hours after a hunting accident.
▪ According to press reports published here over the last few days, Assad has been seriously ill.
▪ Doctors say Mr Crowther is showing some improvement but he's still seriously ill.
▪ Mrs Ormerod fell seriously ill again only days after having been allowed home.
▪ Two, who were most seriously ill with vomiting and other symptoms, were released after a week.
▪ The Empress, who had been seriously ill, died of diabetes soon afterwards.
▪ This can be positively dangerous, if only because such practitioners may not recognise when a person is seriously ill.
▪ The sole survivor, Barry O'Shaughnessy, 19, was seriously ill in hospital last night.
wrong
▪ And by summer 1987 - still a year before Barlow Clowes was closed - it was obvious that something was seriously wrong.
▪ We would call in a specialist and try to find out if there was anything seriously wrong.
▪ What does matter is that something seems seriously wrong with Gaia.
▪ And I think I must conclude that, in spite of the well-established format, something is going seriously wrong here.
▪ Nothing seriously wrong, but she had been sick a lot, slept badly from indigestion, and was disappointed with herself.
▪ They said there'd better be something seriously wrong with me.
▪ It means that we're putting things right when things have gone seriously wrong.
■ VERB
affect
▪ People with allergies and other respiratory and heart ailments may be more seriously affected.
▪ Migrants from equatorial latitudes to countries with reduced light exposure are seriously affected by these climatic changes.
▪ This avoids the water absorption point and is not too seriously affected by scattering.
▪ In this example, wives are the population most seriously affected by whatever research may be done.
▪ Defining sufficient interest is relatively easy where one or more persons are more seriously affected by a decision than people generally.
▪ The leisure business continues to be once again seriously affected by the recession.
▪ Livestock Livestock farming has been seriously affected by the need to produce so much so quickly.
▪ But the Department of Transport claims the couple will not be seriously affected.
become
▪ He became seriously ill shortly after taking his first job in a surveyor's office.
▪ A family whose wage earners are without medical coverage can lose everything when a child becomes seriously ill.
▪ They can lose so much water from the body that they become seriously ill.
▪ Helpless Dear Helpless: First of all stop hitting each other before one of you becomes seriously hurt.
▪ At this time of year, even wrapped-up regions can become seriously dehydrated.
▪ Under Conservative rule civil liberty became seriously eroded.
▪ Its international indebtedness had reached such alarming proportions under the previous Khedive that its Western creditors had become seriously alarmed.
▪ On 16 June 1970 he became seriously ill and died five days later.
believe
▪ No-one could seriously believe that the king had been a worshipper of the cult.
▪ No one any longer seriously believes that Marie and Eleanor actually did preside over such tribunals.
▪ Do you seriously believe you can pick up with this tenth Gittel where you left off with Number One before?
▪ Do you seriously believe the mutt tastes what it gulps down?
▪ Did he seriously believe that she had set out to break up a woman's marriage?
consider
▪ Every computer user should seriously consider protecting their system with an uninterrupted power supply.
▪ He seriously considered it in 1992 and very stupidly chose not to run.
▪ If the patient develops early overt congestive heart failure it is contraindicated, but do seriously consider it later.
▪ I started seriously considering the idea.
▪ But the statistics would have to be extremely bad before Mr Lamont seriously considers such a move.
▪ East Lampeter police never seriously considered other suspects.
▪ I seriously considered disembowelling Ian for this, but on reflection that would be a little harsh.
▪ It is a matter to be seriously considered.
damage
▪ However, the decline in the Tokyo stock market, which has rendered many warrants worthless, may seriously damage the market.
▪ The quake seriously damaged computers at the U.S.
▪ The house was seriously damaged by fire in 1879 but rebuilt largely to the original design.
▪ Neither Bradley nor his school have been seriously damaged by his small act of information sharing.
▪ Treatment can help prevent the infection from seriously damaging the foetus.
▪ Police officials also said 12 patrol cars were seriously damaged in the melee.
▪ If that was now imposed on it, it would very seriously damage its business.
▪ In two days we had had forty-five ships seriously damaged in our slick battalions.
hurt
▪ Mosley was himself quite seriously hurt by a brick at a meeting in Liverpool in 1937.
▪ Unfavorable weather conditions have seriously hurt three of the last four cherry harvests.
▪ Fortunately Diana was not seriously hurt by the fall although she did suffer severe bruising around her stomach.
▪ Fortunately only one legislator was seriously hurt.
▪ I'd been right in thinking that he wasn't seriously hurt, and they soon had him well again.
▪ If both children in these examples were to become flexible caretakers, their parents would be seriously hurt.
▪ His nose had bled and his forehead and face were badly bruised from his fall; but he was not seriously hurt.
▪ It was a miracle none of us was seriously hurt.
injure
▪ The drivers of both vehicles were taken to Darlington Memorial Hospital for treatment but neither was seriously injured.
▪ And this night, he comes close to getting seriously injured.
▪ No one was seriously injured, but M4 Westbound was closed bringing traffic chaos.
▪ The other wounded person, a waitress, was not injured seriously.
▪ It's one of the most evil weapons that he's seen and could only kill or seriously injure.
▪ The following month a twenty-two-year-old black man was shot and seriously injured by a carload of white men.
▪ His girlfriend, Susan Wormsley, who was seriously injured in the crash is still in hospital.
▪ Their young son had been injured seriously in a terrible traffic accident.
look
▪ Instead he was standing with his head on one side, looking seriously at her.
▪ I also promise that the Government will look seriously at all proposals for sensible reform.
▪ She had looked seriously at soft-eyed young men, pierced, as often as not, by arrows.
▪ Basil looked seriously through my work.
▪ But at the moment he looked seriously discomposed, despite Natalia's presence.
take
▪ Differences between them are rarely taken seriously.
▪ Voting for the Baseball Hall of Fame is an enormous privilege, and it should be taken seriously by those involved.
▪ She had not taken seriously, because Robert patently hadn't, the original invitation.
▪ But tonics deserve to be taken seriously.
▪ Unfortunately, it's still the case that you have to dress down to be taken seriously.
▪ You can not expect to be taken seriously with a bovine's milking tackle perched on your bonce.
▪ The committee takes seriously the need to be fair and just in everything it does.
▪ Mitch's image alone does not make clear that he will be mocked rather than taken seriously as an object of desire.
think
▪ You don't seriously think I'd drive around knowing that my insurance was out of date?
▪ Golden State fans haven't thought seriously about the playoffs in years.
▪ No doubt we should have objected if we had ever seriously thought about action.
▪ Neither of them had thought seriously of fog before June 28.
▪ I seriously thought of crawling through the smoke to the door.
▪ Do any of us seriously think that Michael Parks is going to sleep well for the foreseeable future?
▪ Both were fined by Southampton and boss Ian Branfoot had to think seriously about playing them together.
▪ For your own peace of mind, she told the young woman, you should think seriously about having this baby.
threaten
▪ Many birds, small mammals and fish have become extinct or are seriously threatened.
▪ Indeed, the viability of the Department of Housing and Urban Development has been seriously threatened.
▪ Moktadir, who was seriously threatened by the neighbouring kingdoms of Navarre and Aragon, gladly accepted.
▪ Elias, has been seriously threatened, because of its provocative color.
▪ There are 6 agents within a mile of his shop on the Abingdon Road and another outlet would seriously threaten his business.
▪ With regard to the seriously threatened Engelmann oak in San Diego County, merely saving lane trees is not enough.
▪ Probably more so in fact, for all organisms are more seriously threatened by competition from their own species than from others.
▪ Not until the twentieth century did the increase in population force an uneconomic division of farms and seriously threaten Basque rural prosperity.
treat
▪ Had the issue been treated seriously lie ought to have been more than usually invulnerable upon it.
▪ All reports must be treated seriously, and confidentially and must be investigated by the employer.
▪ Woman vicar death threat HATE-mail threats to decapitate a leading activist for women priests are being treated seriously by police.
▪ Preliminary enquiries should be treated seriously and the seller's legal representatives should do their best to supply full answers.
▪ However, it was also claimed that feminism and gender issues were not treated seriously by the senior management.
▪ They have to be treated seriously, but yet not inflated, and Ramey achieves that very convincingly.
undermine
▪ The claims of the falsificationist are seriously undermined by the fact that observation statements are theory-dependent and fallible.
▪ Current levels of traffic seriously undermine the quality of life in our cities.
▪ This seriously undermines the capacity of national governments to set ethical boundaries for business.
▪ However, these studies and many others that followed were seriously undermined by some fault or other.
▪ They argue that this will seriously undermine the adoption of the Biosafety Protocol developed under the Convention on Biodiversity.
weaken
▪ The tying of aid for imports has seriously weakened the policy of standardizing equipment.
▪ He knows Clinton will not propose and Congress will not enact legislation to seriously weaken provisions of the new law.
▪ In effect the Unity Campaign was already seriously weakened.
▪ The effect was devastating, seriously weakening Mrs Thatcher's hold on the premiership and making a leadership contest virtually inevitable.
▪ Then, because of their geographical position, they were seriously weakened by the Viking onslaught down the east coast.
▪ Moreover his domestic position was seriously weakened by his obvious lack of success as a diplomat and a military commander.
wounded
▪ Dozens of others were seriously wounded or left permanently disabled.
▪ Her husband, Pedro Castro Tojín, was seriously wounded in the attack.
▪ In the shoot-out one Klansman was killed, and five others were seriously wounded.
▪ A dozen people were seriously wounded.
▪ Oh, General, I hope you are not seriously wounded.
▪ Mr Inaki Esnaola, another of Herri Batasuna's four deputies-elect, was seriously wounded in the attack.
▪ Although most of the ships had been hit, only two pilots were seriously wounded and had to be evacuated.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Seriously, though, are you going to see her again?
▪ Allow me to speak seriously for a moment.
▪ Are you seriously suggesting that she should give up her job in order to look after her husband?
▪ My plan is to train seriously from January to July.
▪ She was talking about children's social education at a time when no one else was seriously concerned with it.
▪ There was something seriously wrong.
▪ They started dating seriously about 8 months ago.
▪ Those who seriously attempt to kill themselves usually manage to do so.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ And like all craftsmen, they were not always taken seriously by the intellectually fashionable people of their times.
▪ And they take every second of opportunity seriously.
▪ Another 1, 500 children each year are seriously injured by unlocked handguns.
▪ It doesn't deserve to be taken seriously.
▪ It was just a funny number that no one takes seriously, except the workers.
▪ Nationalists in Moldavia fought police and troops late yesterday and unofficial reports said dozens of people were injured, some seriously.
▪ She had not at first taken it seriously.
▪ They weren't taking it seriously.