Dictionary entry
Severely
Pronunciation: /sɪˈvɪəli/
Pronunciation
/sɪˈvɪəli/
Myanmar Meaning
(adv) ပြင်းပြင်းထန်ထန်
Definition
severe /sÇ'vÇǝ(r)/ adj ( -r , -st ) ၁။ ~ (on/ with sb/ sth) ျပင္းထန္ေသာ။ မညႇာေသာ။ a severe look/ punishment/ measure ❍ a severe critic ❍ be severe with one's children ကေလး ေတြကို မ်က္ႏွာသာမေပးဘူး။ ❍ Was the judge too severe on her? တရားသူႀကီးက သူ႕ကို နည္းနည္းမွ် မညႇာဘူးလား။ ၂။ ျပင္းထန္ေသာ။ ႀကီးေလးေသာ။ အလြန္အကြၽံ။ အႀကီးအက်ယ္။ a severe shortage ❍ suffer severe damage/ pain/ injuries ❍ severe frost/ gales ❍ a severe blow to her hopes ❍ The bomb threat caused severe disruption to flights from Heathrow. ၃။ အႀကိတ္အနယ္။ ျပင္းျပင္းထန္ထန္။ a severe test of climbers' stamina ❍ severe competition for university places. ၄။ ႐ိုး႐ိုးစင္းစင္း။ She wore a severe suit of plain grey with a white blouse. ❏ severely adv ျပင္းျပင္းထန္ထန္။ အႀကီးအက်ယ္။ punish sb severely ❍ severely handicapped ❍ His reputation was severely damaged. ❏ severity /sÇ'verǝti/ n [U] ျပင္းထန္မႈ။ the severity (ie extreme cold) of the winter ❍ The attacks continued with increasing severity.
Examples
- Overcrowding in secondary schools is pretty severe.
- The reforms have caused severe economic hardship for the poorest members of the population.
- One of the passengers had suffered severe bruising and serious cuts.
- Severe stomach pain
- Severe thunderstorms are forecast for Tuesday night.
- The country has come under severe criticism for its human rights record.
- The most severe penalty he could get is ten years in prison.
- [severe on] : She was equally severe on students who were late for class.
- A severe expression
- A severe hairstyle
- They face a severe test of character against a vastly superior team.