EXTREMITY


Meaning of EXTREMITY in English

n. 25B6; noun

the eastern extremity : LIMIT, end, edge, side, farthest point, boundary, border, frontier; perimeter, periphery, margin; poetic/literary bourn, marge.

she lost feeling in her extremities : HANDS AND FEET, fingers and toes, limbs.

the extremity of the violence : INTENSITY, magnitude, acuteness, ferocity, vehemence, fierceness, violence, severity, seriousness, strength, power, powerfulness, vigour, force, forcefulness.

in extremity he will send for her : DIRE STRAITS, trouble, difficulty, hard times, hardship, adversity, misfortune, distress; crisis, emergency, disaster, catastrophe, calamity; predicament, plight, mess, dilemma; informal fix, pickle, jam, spot, bind, scrape, hole, sticky situation, hot/deep water.

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