Severe and Violent

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Severe adjective - Given to exacting standards of discipline and self-restraint.

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Violent is a synonym for severe in nature topic. In some cases you can use "Violent" instead an adjective "Severe", when it comes to topics like harsh, difficult, fierce, cruel.

Nearby Words: severely, severity, severed

Violent adjective - Extreme in degree, power, or effect.

Usage example: a violent thunderstorm

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Severe is a synonym for violent in nature topic. You can use "Severe" instead an adjective "Violent", if it concerns topics such as harsh, cruel.

Nearby Words: violence, violently, violator

However, when he learns what Django really wants to do, he has a severe Villainous Breakdown and shows his true violent and psychotic nature with his hammer.

Source: Ax Crazy / Film
From Bad to Worse: As the ARG goes along, Ben gets threatened and hurt several times by ONI, then drugged on a flight, then Chief turns the peace conference to a gunfight, and by Episode 9, FERO and Mshak disappear while severe and violent rioting breaks out in the outer colonies.

Source: ARG / HUNT the TRUTH
Dragon Bones has Ward, who survived to adulthood by pretending to have severe brain damage after his father nearly killed him in a particularly violent beating.

Source: Guile Hero

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