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acute respiratory distress

For men who are single parents, the issue is especially acute.

acute pain

But what if your anxiety is sustained and acute?

Forecasters classified it a bomb cyclone for its acute drop in atmospheric pressure.

This city will suffer from an acute water shortage unless it rains soon.

An acute lack of funds is holding up the plan.

How did it go? "They said it was acute appendicitis."

I am touched by the girl's acute sensitivity.

Communities afflicted with acute destitution are additionally confronted with illiteracy, life in appalling conditions and infectious diseases decimating the indigenous populations.

The problem is most acute in...

The question of world hunger will become much more acute

Grace has acute alcohol poisoning

He's a chain-smoker. He suffers acute anxiety if he has to last for an hour without a cigarette

She felt acute embarrassment/anxiety/concern at his behaviour.

severe life

In severe cases, cracks can form or it can snap apart.

There is a severe shortage of water in this city, so we must give up having a bath occasionally.

The stages of psychosexual development—oral, anal, phallic, latent, and genital—turn out to be one big Freudian slip, betraying severe anal retention on the part of the taxonomist.

Company A is trying to play us off against Company B in a severe price-war.

Happy him who with ease can steer, from grave to gay, from lively to severe.

Major Cold: It's the day of the year that the cold is most severe, but you could also say that Spring is just coming around the corner.

A cute kitten can make a giggling mess even out of the most severe übermensch.

Holding the Olympics where there's severe atmospheric pollution gives rise to a great risk for athletes.

This is a ​school for ​children with severe ​learning difficulties. In ​parts of ​Africa there is a severe ​food/​water ​shortage. There is ​expected to be a severe ​frost ​tonight. Severe ​cutbacks in ​public ​spending have been ​announced.

My condition is so severe that I have to go to hospital. The severe winter killed all of our farm animals.

20 patients suffered from severe side effects. These effects were caused by medicines not connected with the study.

However, he is very severe to those pupils who do not want to study and dislikes those who are arrogant and conceited.

I burned my hand in the hot water. It was pretty severe, so I went to the hospital.

Stalls also can occur at unusually high speeds in severe turbulence or in low level wind shear