be severely ill

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• severely ill — adj. Severely ill is used with these nouns: ↑patient …   Collocations dictionary

• severely ill — very sick, extremely ill …   English contemporary dictionary

• ill*/*/*/ — [ɪl] adj I 1) not healthy because of a medical condition or an injury She was too ill to travel.[/ex] She was unlucky enough to fall ill (= become ill) on holiday.[/ex] Her husband is seriously ill in hospital.[/ex] 2) bad or harmful The fish… …   Dictionary for writing and speaking English

• severely — adverb 1. to a severe or serious degree (Freq. 8) fingers so badly frozen they had to be amputated badly injured a severely impaired heart is gravely ill was seriously ill • Syn: ↑badly, ↑ …   Useful english dictionary

• ill — I UK [ɪl] / US adjective Word forms ill : adjective ill comparative worse superlative worst *** 1) not healthy, because of a medical condition or an injury. The usual American word is sick He s been ill for a couple of weeks. She was too ill to… …   English dictionary

• ill — {{Roman}}I.{{/Roman}} (esp. BrE) adj. ⇨ See also ↑sick VERBS ▪ appear, be, feel, look, seem ▪ lie ▪ He was lying ill in bed …   Collocations dictionary

• severely — adv. Severely is used with these adjectives: ↑autistic, ↑congested, ↑constrained, ↑cracked, ↑critical, ↑damaging, ↑defective, ↑deficient, ↑deformed, ↑depressed, ↑deprived, ↑ …   Collocations dictionary

• eccentric —    severely ill mentally    Literally, not moving on a centrally placed axis, whence, of human behaviour, whimsical or unusual:     The poor man is crazy, the rich man is eccentric, (old saw quoted in Sanders, 1977) …   How not to say what you mean: A dictionary of euphemisms

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