adverb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
badly/severely/seriously damage
▪ Smoking can severely damage your health.
be badly/severely burned
▪ His face had been badly burned in the fire.
be badly/severely/hard hit
▪ The company has been hard hit by the drop in consumer confidence.
heavily/seriously/severely polluted
▪ The lake is seriously polluted.
heavily/severely/badly etc polluted
▪ The island has been seriously polluted by a copper mine.
punish severely
▪ He promised to punish severely any officials found guilty of electoral fraud.
severely depleted
▪ Salmon populations have been severely depleted.
severely disabled
▪ a severely disabled polio patient
severely/drastically curtail
▪ Budget cuts have drastically curtailed training programs.
severely/seriously depressed (=very depressed)
▪ He became severely depressed after losing his job.
sharply/severely/drastically (=cut a lot)
▪ Housing benefit was sharply cut for all but the poorest people.
strongly/severely/heavily criticize sb/sth
▪ Public transport has been severely criticized in the report.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
depressed
▪ Boltwood rubbed a little on the forehead of a four year-old who immune system was severely depressed.
▪ Some one who is more severely depressed may feel physically ill as well as gloomy.
▪ Betty, aged 43, was severely depressed when I first met her.
disabled
▪ About 70 percent of those elderly persons living with younger people are severely disabled.
▪ It's a challenge for the cast, some of whom are severely disabled.
▪ However, it is not just the severely disabled who can benefit from computers.
▪ She is severely disabled and he takes her everywhere.
▪ Fears that disabled drivers particularly the severely disabled will find it impossible to shop in the town were raised.
▪ Subjects 181 severely disabled adults and their carers.
▪ The state depends on these relationships for the support of the vast majority of severely disabled old people.
▪ The Independent Living Fund has proved a great success in giving severely disabled people an opportunity to live in the community.
handicapped
▪ For example, the Rowntree Trust Family Fund has been helpful to families with severely handicapped children.
▪ More severely handicapped people often suffer from physical as well as mental disabilities.
▪ A family with a severely handicapped child will have many problems.
▪ Mencap's Day Services campaign indicates that the most desperate need is for the severely handicapped and those with behavioural difficulties.
ill
▪ Halmi etal, found a lifetime prevalence of 68% for major depression in a sample of severely ill anorexia nervosa patients.
▪ A lumbar puncture is necessary for those who are severely ill or in those who show any suggestion of nuchal rigidity.
▪ First, only inpatients were evaluated since we aimed to study prognosis in this more severely ill group.
▪ He fell severely ill in 1989 while on a visit to the United States.
▪ A few of these people react to a great variety of chemicals and foods, and are quite severely ill.
▪ Without time passing in a familiar manner, the severely ill lose the story line of their lives.
▪ Those admitted from the waiting list will usually be quite fit but patients who are admitted as emergencies may be severely ill.
▪ Anyone earning more than £30,000 would be severely worse off.
limited
▪ This poses enormous problems for developing countries with severely limited educational resources, especially in the rural areas of those countries.
▪ Individually, workers may feel that they are severely limited, even powerless, in what they can do.
▪ In that severely limited sense, and only in that, the new anti-Modernism was anti-intellectual.
▪ Once eukaryotes had evolved, it seems that opportunities for genetic exchange would have been severely limited.
▪ Yet charities' resources are often severely limited and funding in this sector is notoriously precarious.
▪ Our potential to influence the structure, responsibilities and policies of government is severely limited.
▪ He worried over the pace of his build-up, which he knew should be quickened though resources for this were severely limited.
■ VERB
affect
▪ It has also been severely affected by debt and regional conflicts.
▪ In addition the eyes are more severely affected and become filmed over and inflamed; they finally bulge and burst.
▪ Since 1980, education has been severely affected by the war, at times almost paralysed by it.
▪ If a strike does take place, commuters in the Northeast would be severely affected.
▪ The gene is found on the X chromosome, males being more severely affected than females.
▪ Patients as severely affected as my mother must have felt that only their brains and hearts lived.
▪ Local populations of some dolphins have been severely affected by the use of shark nets to protect bathers.
▪ Often the smallest calves are most severely affected.
beat
▪ About a month ago he was severely beaten up by a gang of white boys on the way back from school.
▪ One woman was really severely beaten.
▪ He was severely beaten by his drunken captors until one of them ended his life by a blow with an axe.
▪ He was not severely beaten but was terrified.
become
▪ That shareholder control had become severely attenuated was certainly accepted in Britain by 1945.
▪ A 47-year-old married man with two teen-age children became severely depressed after losing his job as an advertising executive.
▪ During this time the male is unable to feed properly and becomes severely emaciated.
▪ The engram bank becomes severely distorted by painful emotion and the areas of painful emotion be-come severely distorted by physical pain elsewhere.
▪ The gastrointestinal tract, however, is another are that may become severely affected by autonomic neuropathy.
burned
▪ One fireman was severely burned in a rescue attempt.
▪ Anyone touching him is severely burned.
▪ Following a laboratory explosion, his hand was severely burned.
constrain
▪ It is also interesting to note that often they are severely constrained.
▪ But they are severely constrained by the time-table of forty-minute periods.
criticised
▪ Understandably, many of his old flock in Kidderminster severely criticised him for this.
▪ It is hard to know why this report has been so severely criticised by Smith and others.
▪ They have been severely criticised by almost all hon. Members during the debate.
criticize
▪ In 1972 he had suggested independence as Ulster's best course and been severely criticized by Paisley and others.
▪ Whenever Mother had severely criticized Megan Wai-la, Father was at work.
▪ As the war dragged on with little success, he was severely criticized.
curtail
▪ Since 1979, public sector housing has been severely curtailed.
▪ We will ensure that their influence is severely curtailed and, if possible, removed.
▪ Specialised services on drugs and undercover activity were severely curtailed.
▪ Arkies will never agree to one which doesn't severely curtail our freedoms.
cut
▪ Everyone is wearing black, the men are in somber suits, the women in severely cut unadorned dresses.
▪ The teachers said many toddlers' feet had already been severely cut.
damage
▪ A two storey building and some caravans were severely damaged.
▪ A severely damaged Royal Navy destroyer burns through the day with exploding ordnance and great sudden flares of burning bunker oil.
▪ The Amerada Hess Corporation oil refinery, with a capacity of 545,000 barrels per day, was also severely damaged.
▪ We have a flood control system that is severely damaged.
▪ The front room was severely damaged and no one was injured in the incident.
▪ Twin quakes on Sept. 26 killed 10 people and severely damaged the basilica in Assisi.
▪ The fifth car appears to have been on the outer track, which was severely damaged north of the bridge.
▪ His right arm was severely damaged, and his young son also suffered in the attack.
deplete
▪ With the onset of World War 11, the ranks were severely depleted, and the forest work camps were closed.
▪ But clan warfare has severely depleted the amount of food getting through.
depress
▪ At worst, we can become anxious, insecure and severely depressed.
▪ A 47-year-old married man with two teen-age children became severely depressed after losing his job as an advertising executive.
▪ Also, an overdose of barbiturates can severely depress the central nervous system and lead to death.
▪ What she is, though I do not know it at the time, is severely depressed.
disable
▪ They may have to care for a severely disabled child with very little help.
▪ Three schools said their only limits were on severely disabled students.
▪ For example, it enables the more severely disabled to adapt equipment, such as computers, to meet their needs.
▪ All 4 groups of severely disabled children need-and deserve to have-proper care and support.
▪ He could hold on to office even though so severely disabled as to be unable to lead.
▪ I had a man who was retarded and who was also severely disabled physically.
disrupt
▪ In other words, the education of 250,000 pupils is being severely disrupted.
▪ Environmentalists fear that, if completed, the hydro-electric dam will severely disrupt the Danube ecosystem.
▪ Soviet trade through Iasi was severely disrupted, as was trade with the West through Timisoara.
▪ Boxing Day frost threat Frost is threatening to severely disrupt the busy Boxing Day programme.
hamper
▪ This lack of impact had severely hampered Wilder's fundraising ef-forts.
▪ Geest warned in the autumn that oversupply in the final quarter of 1995 would severely hamper its full-year bottom line.
handicap
▪ Many people are searching for faith again, but they are severely handicapped.
▪ Finally some friends of theirs who had a severely handicapped child told Mike this was illegal: that they had some rights.
▪ Economic development since independence was severely handicapped by sabotage and political strife.
▪ Living with other severely handicapped people, Mother also had plenty of reminders of the fragility of her existence.
▪ At issue is his controversial view that parents have the right to euthanize severely handicapped new-born children.
▪ A second level of priority was assigned to provisions for those severely handicapped children whose educations were judged to be inadequate.
▪ About 40 of the most severely handicapped learn basic social skills.
▪ Of these 7. 5 million youngsters, nearly half are presumed to be severely handicapped by their mental disorder.
hit
▪ Professional families, where the mother stays at home to look after the children, would be severely hit.
impair
▪ Acute schizophrenia can severely impair mothering skills when maternal distress leads to distraction and neglect.
▪ If renal function is severely impaired, acetazolamide is ineffective.
▪ Part of the problem is that they are often on tasks that are also severely impaired after destruction of primary visual cortex.
▪ Such a large amount of excess capacity must severely impair the effective functioning of the accelerator.
injure
▪ A car bomb exploded at a police station in Burgos on Aug. 17, severely injuring one person.
▪ Ulcers also are more likely to occur when a child is ill or has been severely injured.
▪ She was severely injured but made a full recovery.
▪ Mr Parfitt was in constant pain after severely injuring his back in a laboratory accident 22 years ago.
▪ You attacked, knocked out and severely injured your victim.
▪ At the receiving end of the violent punch Armand Proietti was severely injured and required surgery.
▪ A spokesman for Darlington police said both women had been fortunate not to have been more severely injured in the crash.
▪ We have notes on two hunter's wives severely injured by plummeting pheasants.
limit
▪ Its toxicity has severely limited its use as an antiulcer drug but either it or its analogues are occasionally used clinically.
▪ In some states, claims for pain and suffering were outlawed entirely or severely limited.
▪ However, the short scale, coupled with such light gauge strings for a bass, severely limits this facility.
▪ But this entrepreneur moved to a small country town where the workforce was severely limited.
▪ The impact of the book, however, was severely limited by its size.
▪ This was inconvenient, to say the least, and severely limited the amount of work that could be done.
▪ Obviously the simple non-availability of the result must severely limit the significance that employers can place on exam-passing perse.
▪ As we have seen, the marketplace itself severely limits the quality of information and diversity of ideas.
punish
▪ What concerned us more was the news that anyone sheltering or helping escaped prisoners-of-war would be severely punished.
▪ He notes that whenever earnings problems have emerged, investors have severely punished stocks.
▪ Again, if the early screams of protest have been severely punished, regard for their own need may feel too dangerous.
▪ Belle has already been severely punished.
▪ It means inflicting an injury which would be severely punished by a court of law if it was inflicted during an argument.
▪ Anyone, even of their own number, who had harmed it would have been severely punished.
▪ She had been intercepted outside Guy's room and would be severely punished, perhaps even killed.
▪ Thorn threatened after the Van Exel incident to severely punish the next player who made physical contact with a referee.
reduce
▪ That change has severely reduced the amount of pension that many pensioners receive.
▪ It has little effect at low currents but severely reduces voltage at high currents.
▪ Clearly this was an unsatisfactory procedure severely reducing the acceptability of his answer.
▪ Children with these conditions will be averse to glare and have severely reduced vision in bright sunlight.
reprimand
▪ In May 1989, a registrar admitted a drink-driving charge and was severely reprimanded by the Lord Chancellor.
▪ The hapless Sidney Barnett was found guilty of assault and severely reprimanded by the court.
▪ The baffled executioners were severely reprimanded before getting another crack at Vincent.
▪ Debra remembered as a very young child being severely reprimanded by her father.
restrict
▪ Nor will the legal guarantee of freedom of speech be of much use if access to the mass media is severely restricted.
▪ The variety of genetic and morphological forms is severely restricted.
▪ And now Lord Chancellor Lord MacKay has warned that spending cuts are likely to severely restrict the amount of aid available.
▪ Victorian women wore severely restricting corsets to achieve an hourglass shape.
▪ Most Western governments ban or severely restrict the chemical.
▪ She went on dialysis and discovered her life as a high school physical education teacher and athlete would be severely restricted.
▪ A quarter of the world's population lives in countries in which abortion is severely restricted or is defined as a crime.
▪ At the moment nationalised industries are severely restricted in the way they borrow money.
shake
▪ Your fellow-passengers, severely shaken, Will almost all be loath to stick around.
▪ Mr Harrison emerged with cuts and bruises, and severely shaken.
strain
▪ Relations between the two states were severely strained.
▪ And relations between Dublin and London have been severely strained.
▪ She was already twenty-one and their self-imposed tests of constraint were severely strained.
▪ A high-spending boom followed by bust and recession have severely strained relationships of all kinds.
suffer
▪ In later years she suffered severely from asthma.
▪ The author of the Book of Revelation suffered severely from this split.
▪ The second night he did not feel well and suffered severely from sleepiness.
▪ Her burial garments were said to have suffered severely from the dampness.
▪ Urban economic and political development suffered severely from the social and demographic upheaval set in train during Ivan IV's reign.
▪ Towns like Lefors suffer severely when industries on which their economies rest falter.
▪ The credibility of your work will suffer severely if key words, such as technical terms or people's names, are misspelled.
▪ The Confederates, having themselves suffered severely, made no more attacks at this point.
test
▪ Thus, the durability of Czechoslovakia's democratic transition will be severely tested in the coming months.
▪ In the south, however, the Vietminh was being severely tested.
▪ There may be isolated incidents which severely test the policy.
▪ In 1557, however, Paul once again took action which severely tested the relationship.
undermine
▪ Liberation has turned sour producing anomie and alienation, severely undermining any sense of collective responsibility or response.
▪ Car ownership and use grow continuously, severely undermining the government's fragile attempts to improve the environment.
▪ Insomnia can severely undermine a person's ability to cope with other problems, including the stress of grieving.
▪ Lax local authority policies and the undermining of policies of restraint on appeal, severely undermine processes of urban regeneration.
▪ The Army's preference to appear neutral was severely undermined by its role during the Loyalist marching season of 1970.
▪ Ozawa's concessions in the negotiations with Komeito were seen by many commentators as having severely undermined his position.
weaken
▪ Four years of drought and rapidly declining business had left all five branches of the Inyo County Bank severely weakened.
wounded
▪ The less fortunate were the severely wounded who were being placed on the grass with two medics to attend to their wounds.
▪ The second man was severely wounded.
▪ Although severely wounded, Atkinson rescued five seamen and was awarded the Albert medal.
▪ We have also left the enemy all our dead and the greater part of our severely wounded.
▪ Malcolm himself was severely wounded in the leg.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ severely disabled children
▪ a severely damaged building
▪ Her hair was pulled back severely from her face.
▪ Martinson spoke severely about his opponent's voting record in the Senate.
▪ Medical facilities are severely limited in the area.
▪ She grew up in a house where the children were often severely punished.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ A 47-year-old married man with two teen-age children became severely depressed after losing his job as an advertising executive.
▪ A two storey building and some caravans were severely damaged.
▪ At two years old, or thereabouts, I was severely judgmental about receiving and bestowing pleasure.
▪ For the courts to demand that parents must keep alive severely deformed children against their will is perverse and unkind.
▪ In the fight that followed, Griffith beat Paret so severely that he died several days later.
▪ It has been converted to provide accommodation for up to 60 chronically sick or severely disabled residents.
▪ State judicial selection procedures are even more severely criticized.