Dutch English Dictionary

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hevig in English:

1. severe


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

English word "hevig"(severe) occurs in sets:

7. Health (4)

2. intense


The heat is intense.
Aya likes intense colors, such as hot pink, electric blue and deep purple.
The eating of delicious food is one of the most intense and poignant pleasures of life.
He just naturally avoids everything that is intense, difficult or strenuous.
Competition for the position is very intense.
How are you keeping off this intense heat?
External pressure grows ever more intense.
It seems that it's impossible to distinguish an obsessional neurosis from an intense love from a biochemical perspective.
Far from stopping, the storm became much more intense.
The superpowers negotiated in earnest for the settlement of the intense conflict.
Sales at the company zoomed thanks to brisk export demand, but profit did not keep up because of intense competition.
The Syrians have been forced to withdraw under intenseinternational pressure.
The emotional trauma must have been too intense for him.
intense book
Most Chinese families have only one child; so the pressure on candidates is intense.