adverb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
badly/severely/seriously damage
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Smoking can severely damage your health.
be badly/severely burned
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His face had been badly burned in the fire.
be badly/severely/hard hit
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The company has been hard hit by the drop in consumer confidence.
heavily/seriously/severely polluted
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The lake is seriously polluted.
heavily/severely/badly etc polluted
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The island has been seriously polluted by a copper mine.
punish severely
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He promised to punish severely any officials found guilty of electoral fraud.
severely depleted
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Salmon populations have been severely depleted .
severely disabled
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a severely disabled polio patient
severely/drastically curtail
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Budget cuts have drastically curtailed training programs.
severely/seriously depressed (= very depressed )
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He became severely depressed after losing his job.
sharply/severely/drastically (= cut a lot )
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Housing benefit was sharply cut for all but the poorest people.
strongly/severely/heavily criticize sb/sth
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Public transport has been severely criticized in the report.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
depressed
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Boltwood rubbed a little on the forehead of a four year-old who immune system was severely depressed .
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Some one who is more severely depressed may feel physically ill as well as gloomy.
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Betty, aged 43, was severely depressed when I first met her.
disabled
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About 70 percent of those elderly persons living with younger people are severely disabled .
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It's a challenge for the cast, some of whom are severely disabled .
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However, it is not just the severely disabled who can benefit from computers.
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She is severely disabled and he takes her everywhere.
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Fears that disabled drivers particularly the severely disabled will find it impossible to shop in the town were raised.
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Subjects 181 severely disabled adults and their carers.
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The state depends on these relationships for the support of the vast majority of severely disabled old people.
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The Independent Living Fund has proved a great success in giving severely disabled people an opportunity to live in the community.
handicapped
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For example, the Rowntree Trust Family Fund has been helpful to families with severely handicapped children.
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More severely handicapped people often suffer from physical as well as mental disabilities.
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A family with a severely handicapped child will have many problems.
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Mencap's Day Services campaign indicates that the most desperate need is for the severely handicapped and those with behavioural difficulties.
ill
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Halmi etal, found a lifetime prevalence of 68% for major depression in a sample of severely ill anorexia nervosa patients.
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A lumbar puncture is necessary for those who are severely ill or in those who show any suggestion of nuchal rigidity.
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First, only inpatients were evaluated since we aimed to study prognosis in this more severely ill group.
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He fell severely ill in 1989 while on a visit to the United States.
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A few of these people react to a great variety of chemicals and foods, and are quite severely ill .
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Without time passing in a familiar manner, the severely ill lose the story line of their lives.
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Those admitted from the waiting list will usually be quite fit but patients who are admitted as emergencies may be severely ill .
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Anyone earning more than £30,000 would be severely worse off.
limited
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This poses enormous problems for developing countries with severely limited educational resources, especially in the rural areas of those countries.
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Individually, workers may feel that they are severely limited , even powerless, in what they can do.
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In that severely limited sense, and only in that, the new anti-Modernism was anti-intellectual.
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Once eukaryotes had evolved, it seems that opportunities for genetic exchange would have been severely limited .
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Yet charities' resources are often severely limited and funding in this sector is notoriously precarious.
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Our potential to influence the structure, responsibilities and policies of government is severely limited .
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He worried over the pace of his build-up, which he knew should be quickened though resources for this were severely limited .
■ VERB
affect
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It has also been severely affected by debt and regional conflicts.
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In addition the eyes are more severely affected and become filmed over and inflamed; they finally bulge and burst.
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Since 1980, education has been severely affected by the war, at times almost paralysed by it.
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If a strike does take place, commuters in the Northeast would be severely affected .
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The gene is found on the X chromosome, males being more severely affected than females.
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Patients as severely affected as my mother must have felt that only their brains and hearts lived.
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Local populations of some dolphins have been severely affected by the use of shark nets to protect bathers.
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Often the smallest calves are most severely affected .
beat
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About a month ago he was severely beaten up by a gang of white boys on the way back from school.
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One woman was really severely beaten .
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He was severely beaten by his drunken captors until one of them ended his life by a blow with an axe.
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He was not severely beaten but was terrified.
become
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That shareholder control had become severely attenuated was certainly accepted in Britain by 1945.
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A 47-year-old married man with two teen-age children became severely depressed after losing his job as an advertising executive.
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During this time the male is unable to feed properly and becomes severely emaciated.
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The engram bank becomes severely distorted by painful emotion and the areas of painful emotion be-come severely distorted by physical pain elsewhere.
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The gastrointestinal tract, however, is another are that may become severely affected by autonomic neuropathy.
burned
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One fireman was severely burned in a rescue attempt.
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Anyone touching him is severely burned .
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Following a laboratory explosion, his hand was severely burned .
constrain
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It is also interesting to note that often they are severely constrained .
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But they are severely constrained by the time-table of forty-minute periods.
criticised
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Understandably, many of his old flock in Kidderminster severely criticised him for this.
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It is hard to know why this report has been so severely criticised by Smith and others.
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They have been severely criticised by almost all hon. Members during the debate.
criticize
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In 1972 he had suggested independence as Ulster's best course and been severely criticized by Paisley and others.
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Whenever Mother had severely criticized Megan Wai-la, Father was at work.
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As the war dragged on with little success, he was severely criticized .
curtail
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Since 1979, public sector housing has been severely curtailed .
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We will ensure that their influence is severely curtailed and, if possible, removed.
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Specialised services on drugs and undercover activity were severely curtailed .
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Arkies will never agree to one which doesn't severely curtail our freedoms.
cut
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Everyone is wearing black, the men are in somber suits, the women in severely cut unadorned dresses.
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The teachers said many toddlers' feet had already been severely cut .
damage
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A two storey building and some caravans were severely damaged .
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A severely damaged Royal Navy destroyer burns through the day with exploding ordnance and great sudden flares of burning bunker oil.
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The Amerada Hess Corporation oil refinery, with a capacity of 545,000 barrels per day, was also severely damaged .
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We have a flood control system that is severely damaged .
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The front room was severely damaged and no one was injured in the incident.
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Twin quakes on Sept. 26 killed 10 people and severely damaged the basilica in Assisi.
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The fifth car appears to have been on the outer track, which was severely damaged north of the bridge.
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His right arm was severely damaged , and his young son also suffered in the attack.
deplete
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With the onset of World War 11, the ranks were severely depleted , and the forest work camps were closed.
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But clan warfare has severely depleted the amount of food getting through.
depress
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At worst, we can become anxious, insecure and severely depressed .
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A 47-year-old married man with two teen-age children became severely depressed after losing his job as an advertising executive.
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Also, an overdose of barbiturates can severely depress the central nervous system and lead to death.
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What she is, though I do not know it at the time, is severely depressed .
disable
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They may have to care for a severely disabled child with very little help.
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Three schools said their only limits were on severely disabled students.
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For example, it enables the more severely disabled to adapt equipment, such as computers, to meet their needs.
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All 4 groups of severely disabled children need-and deserve to have-proper care and support.
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He could hold on to office even though so severely disabled as to be unable to lead.
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I had a man who was retarded and who was also severely disabled physically.
disrupt
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In other words, the education of 250,000 pupils is being severely disrupted .
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Environmentalists fear that, if completed, the hydro-electric dam will severely disrupt the Danube ecosystem.
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Soviet trade through Iasi was severely disrupted , as was trade with the West through Timisoara.
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Boxing Day frost threat Frost is threatening to severely disrupt the busy Boxing Day programme.
hamper
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This lack of impact had severely hampered Wilder's fundraising ef-forts.
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Geest warned in the autumn that oversupply in the final quarter of 1995 would severely hamper its full-year bottom line.
handicap
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Many people are searching for faith again, but they are severely handicapped .
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Finally some friends of theirs who had a severely handicapped child told Mike this was illegal: that they had some rights.
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Economic development since independence was severely handicapped by sabotage and political strife.
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Living with other severely handicapped people, Mother also had plenty of reminders of the fragility of her existence.
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At issue is his controversial view that parents have the right to euthanize severely handicapped new-born children.
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A second level of priority was assigned to provisions for those severely handicapped children whose educations were judged to be inadequate.
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About 40 of the most severely handicapped learn basic social skills.
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Of these 7. 5 million youngsters, nearly half are presumed to be severely handicapped by their mental disorder.
hit
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Professional families, where the mother stays at home to look after the children, would be severely hit .
impair
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Acute schizophrenia can severely impair mothering skills when maternal distress leads to distraction and neglect.
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If renal function is severely impaired , acetazolamide is ineffective.
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Part of the problem is that they are often on tasks that are also severely impaired after destruction of primary visual cortex.
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Such a large amount of excess capacity must severely impair the effective functioning of the accelerator.
injure
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A car bomb exploded at a police station in Burgos on Aug. 17, severely injuring one person.
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Ulcers also are more likely to occur when a child is ill or has been severely injured .
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She was severely injured but made a full recovery.
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Mr Parfitt was in constant pain after severely injuring his back in a laboratory accident 22 years ago.
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You attacked, knocked out and severely injured your victim.
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At the receiving end of the violent punch Armand Proietti was severely injured and required surgery.
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A spokesman for Darlington police said both women had been fortunate not to have been more severely injured in the crash.
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We have notes on two hunter's wives severely injured by plummeting pheasants.
limit
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Its toxicity has severely limited its use as an antiulcer drug but either it or its analogues are occasionally used clinically.
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In some states, claims for pain and suffering were outlawed entirely or severely limited .
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However, the short scale, coupled with such light gauge strings for a bass, severely limits this facility.
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But this entrepreneur moved to a small country town where the workforce was severely limited .
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The impact of the book, however, was severely limited by its size.
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This was inconvenient, to say the least, and severely limited the amount of work that could be done.
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Obviously the simple non-availability of the result must severely limit the significance that employers can place on exam-passing perse.
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As we have seen, the marketplace itself severely limits the quality of information and diversity of ideas.
punish
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What concerned us more was the news that anyone sheltering or helping escaped prisoners-of-war would be severely punished .
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He notes that whenever earnings problems have emerged, investors have severely punished stocks.
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Again, if the early screams of protest have been severely punished , regard for their own need may feel too dangerous.
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Belle has already been severely punished .
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It means inflicting an injury which would be severely punished by a court of law if it was inflicted during an argument.
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Anyone, even of their own number, who had harmed it would have been severely punished .
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She had been intercepted outside Guy's room and would be severely punished , perhaps even killed.
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Thorn threatened after the Van Exel incident to severely punish the next player who made physical contact with a referee.
reduce
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That change has severely reduced the amount of pension that many pensioners receive.
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It has little effect at low currents but severely reduces voltage at high currents.
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Clearly this was an unsatisfactory procedure severely reducing the acceptability of his answer.
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Children with these conditions will be averse to glare and have severely reduced vision in bright sunlight.
reprimand
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In May 1989, a registrar admitted a drink-driving charge and was severely reprimanded by the Lord Chancellor.
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The hapless Sidney Barnett was found guilty of assault and severely reprimanded by the court.
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The baffled executioners were severely reprimanded before getting another crack at Vincent.
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Debra remembered as a very young child being severely reprimanded by her father.
restrict
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Nor will the legal guarantee of freedom of speech be of much use if access to the mass media is severely restricted .
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The variety of genetic and morphological forms is severely restricted .
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And now Lord Chancellor Lord MacKay has warned that spending cuts are likely to severely restrict the amount of aid available.
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Victorian women wore severely restricting corsets to achieve an hourglass shape.
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Most Western governments ban or severely restrict the chemical.
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She went on dialysis and discovered her life as a high school physical education teacher and athlete would be severely restricted .
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A quarter of the world's population lives in countries in which abortion is severely restricted or is defined as a crime.
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At the moment nationalised industries are severely restricted in the way they borrow money.
shake
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Your fellow-passengers, severely shaken , Will almost all be loath to stick around.
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Mr Harrison emerged with cuts and bruises, and severely shaken .
strain
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Relations between the two states were severely strained .
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And relations between Dublin and London have been severely strained .
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She was already twenty-one and their self-imposed tests of constraint were severely strained .
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A high-spending boom followed by bust and recession have severely strained relationships of all kinds.
suffer
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In later years she suffered severely from asthma.
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The author of the Book of Revelation suffered severely from this split.
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The second night he did not feel well and suffered severely from sleepiness.
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Her burial garments were said to have suffered severely from the dampness.
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Urban economic and political development suffered severely from the social and demographic upheaval set in train during Ivan IV's reign.
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Towns like Lefors suffer severely when industries on which their economies rest falter.
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The credibility of your work will suffer severely if key words, such as technical terms or people's names, are misspelled.
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The Confederates, having themselves suffered severely , made no more attacks at this point.
test
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Thus, the durability of Czechoslovakia's democratic transition will be severely tested in the coming months.
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In the south, however, the Vietminh was being severely tested .
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There may be isolated incidents which severely test the policy.
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In 1557, however, Paul once again took action which severely tested the relationship.
undermine
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Liberation has turned sour producing anomie and alienation, severely undermining any sense of collective responsibility or response.
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Car ownership and use grow continuously, severely undermining the government's fragile attempts to improve the environment.
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Insomnia can severely undermine a person's ability to cope with other problems, including the stress of grieving.
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Lax local authority policies and the undermining of policies of restraint on appeal, severely undermine processes of urban regeneration.
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The Army's preference to appear neutral was severely undermined by its role during the Loyalist marching season of 1970.
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Ozawa's concessions in the negotiations with Komeito were seen by many commentators as having severely undermined his position.
weaken
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Four years of drought and rapidly declining business had left all five branches of the Inyo County Bank severely weakened .
wounded
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The less fortunate were the severely wounded who were being placed on the grass with two medics to attend to their wounds.
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The second man was severely wounded .
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Although severely wounded , Atkinson rescued five seamen and was awarded the Albert medal.
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We have also left the enemy all our dead and the greater part of our severely wounded .
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Malcolm himself was severely wounded in the leg.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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severely disabled children
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a severely damaged building
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Her hair was pulled back severely from her face.
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Martinson spoke severely about his opponent's voting record in the Senate.
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Medical facilities are severely limited in the area.
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She grew up in a house where the children were often severely punished.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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A 47-year-old married man with two teen-age children became severely depressed after losing his job as an advertising executive.
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A two storey building and some caravans were severely damaged.
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At two years old, or thereabouts, I was severely judgmental about receiving and bestowing pleasure.
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For the courts to demand that parents must keep alive severely deformed children against their will is perverse and unkind.
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In the fight that followed, Griffith beat Paret so severely that he died several days later.
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It has been converted to provide accommodation for up to 60 chronically sick or severely disabled residents.
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State judicial selection procedures are even more severely criticized.