- severe
- adj.VERBS▪ be, seem, sound▪ become, grow▪ remainADVERB▪ extremely, fairly, very, etc.▪ especially, exceptionally, particularly, unusually▪
an exceptionally severe frost
▪ increasingly▪ moderately, relatively▪women affected by mild to moderately severe symptoms
Severe is used with these nouns: ↑acne, ↑allergy, ↑arthritis, ↑asthma, ↑attack, ↑beating, ↑bleeding, ↑blow, ↑bout, ↑bun, ↑burn, ↑case, ↑chill, ↑climate, ↑competition, ↑complication, ↑concussion, ↑condemnation, ↑condition, ↑congestion, ↑consequence, ↑constipation, ↑constraint, ↑cramp, ↑crisis, ↑critic, ↑criticism, ↑cut, ↑cutback, ↑damage, ↑decline, ↑defect, ↑deficiency, ↑deformity, ↑dehydration, ↑dent, ↑depletion, ↑depression, ↑deprivation, ↑diarrhoea, ↑difficulty, ↑disability, ↑disadvantage, ↑disappointment, ↑discomfort, ↑disease, ↑disorder, ↑disruption, ↑distortion, ↑distress, ↑disturbance, ↑doubt, ↑downturn, ↑drop, ↑drought, ↑earthquake, ↑electric shock, ↑embarrassment, ↑episode, ↑erosion, ↑famine, ↑fatigue, ↑flood, ↑form, ↑frost, ↑gale, ↑haemorrhage, ↑handicap, ↑hardship, ↑headache, ↑hepatitis, ↑illness, ↑imbalance, ↑impact, ↑indigestion, ↑infection, ↑inflammation, ↑injury, ↑irritation, ↑jolt, ↑lack, ↑limit, ↑limitation, ↑look, ↑loss, ↑malaria, ↑malnutrition, ↑migraine, ↑nausea, ↑outbreak, ↑pain, ↑paranoia, ↑penalty, ↑persecution, ↑pneumonia, ↑poisoning, ↑poverty, ↑punishment, ↑reaction, ↑recession, ↑reduction, ↑repercussion, ↑repression, ↑reprimand, ↑restriction, ↑sanction, ↑sentence, ↑setback, ↑shock, ↑shortage, ↑sickness, ↑side effect, ↑slump, ↑spasm, ↑stammer, ↑storm, ↑strain, ↑stress, ↑stutter, ↑swelling, ↑symptom, ↑test, ↑tiredness, ↑trauma, ↑tremor, ↑unemployment, ↑weather, ↑winter, ↑wound
Collocations dictionary. 2013.