severely

Adverb

• causing great damage or hardship
  • industries hit hard by the depression
    
  • she was severely affected by the bank's failure
    

• with sternness; in a severe manner
  • `No,' she said sternly
    
  • peered severely over her glasses
    

• to a severe or serious degree
  • fingers so badly frozen they had to be amputated
    
  • badly injured
    
  • a severely impaired heart
    
  • is gravely ill
    
  • was seriously ill
    

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• Synonyms: 
  hard , sternly , badly , gravely , seriously