adverb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
acutely/highly embarrassed (= extremely embarrassed )
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The government must be acutely embarrassed by the minister’s behaviour.
well/fully/acutely aware
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They were well aware that the company was losing money.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
aware
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It reveals instead a man who is acutely aware of his image.
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But repetition is what I am acutely aware of now.
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Indeed many of the pluralist writers were acutely aware of inequalities in the distribution of power.
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The presence of the baby nurse had made him and Rhoda acutely aware of what a dump they lived in.
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She turned over, acutely aware of the man on the other side of the door and angry at her own awareness.
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Floyd became acutely aware of the gigantic forces coiled up around him, waiting to be released.
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The present generation of young people is acutely aware of the need for a second language.
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Brownson himself was acutely aware of the paradox that existed.
conscious
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A conveyancer must be acutely conscious of the problems a conflict of interest might impose.
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He was at that point of drunkenness where, acutely conscious of it, he made an effort to hide it.
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Theda was therefore acutely conscious of one gentleman, rather stout and red of face.
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We see therefore that the Framers were acutely conscious that the bicameral requirement and the Presentment Clauses would serve essential constitutional functions.
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He was acutely conscious of the fact that his life hung on a twitch of his captor's trigger finger.
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They are acutely conscious of having failed parental expectations.
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Hannah was acutely conscious of Max.
sensitive
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In times of war and similar threats we are acutely sensitive of anything that is faintly seditious.
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We are acutely sensitive to sedimentary layering, perhaps because of our origins in prehistory?
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No more: Mr Clinton won eight western states last November and is acutely sensitive to western politics.
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Unfortunately, anxious and stressed people become acutely sensitive to such fluctuations making them worse by their own concern.
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All three are acutely sensitive , perceptive musicians.
■ VERB
become
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Anxious people become acutely sensitized to their bodies, noticing minor bodily changes upon which they focus.
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Floyd became acutely aware of the gigantic forces coiled up around him, waiting to be released.
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I became acutely aware of people staring at me from the towpath and from the water itself.
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In situations like this, when you are receptive to the point of rawness, you become acutely aware of it.
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Unfortunately, anxious and stressed people become acutely sensitive to such fluctuations making them worse by their own concern.
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Since the baby nurse had arrived, Kramer had also become acutely aware of the way his wife talked.
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Her feelings about this man might be ambiguous to the point of causing insanity, but she became acutely aware of something.
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In doses far below those used for anesthetic purposes, ketamine makes normal people become acutely psychotic.
feel
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She felt an absolute wreck, yet at the same time she felt acutely self-aware.
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In any case the number of dwellings actually completed by 1950 was pathetically small, and housing shortages were felt acutely elsewhere.
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The deprivation of family and social ties seem most acute although loss of liberty is also acutely felt .
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Whatever she wore, she'd feel acutely self-conscious.
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He felt acutely that he lacked the authenticity that the popular vote bestows upon a leader.
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They felt acutely the loss of their skilled experience.
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Of course Silas knew she was in love with him, she decided, feeling acutely embarrassed.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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acutely ill patients
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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He was acutely aware of everything that had gone on in front of the then roaring fire.
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I am acutely aware of a further objection.
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In February 1974, they feared acutely that a Labour victory would reverse their achievement.
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In Washington his face became so acutely inflamed and swollen that he sought out a local physician.
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Katherine was suddenly acutely aware that he sounded boyish, happy.