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单词 grievous
释义
grievous
adjective
formal
uk
/ˈɡriː.vəs/us
/ˈɡriː.vəs/
having veryseriouseffectsorcausinggreatpain:
极严重的，剧烈的；使人痛苦的，令人悲伤的
Herdeathis a grievouslossto thewholeof thecommunity.她的去世是整个社区的重大损失。
grievouswounds重伤
Thesaurus: synonyms, antonyms, and examples
having a bad result or outcome
  • seriousHer condition is not thought to be serious.
  • badHe got a bad case of food poisoning.
  • bigOnline fraud is a big problem.
  • majorIt's not a major problem, but it does need to be taken care of.
  • graveThe public are in grave danger.
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SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
Serious and severe
  • acutely
  • acuteness
  • catastrophic
  • critical
  • critically
  • dire
  • egregious
  • fatal
  • grave
  • non-fatal
  • non-serious
  • seriously
  • severe
  • severely
  • severity
  • stiff
  • stringent
  • terminal
  • toughness
  • utmost
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grievously
(Definition ofgrievousfrom theCambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus© Cambridge University Press)

grievous| American Dictionary

grievous
adjective
us
/ˈɡri·vəs/
having veryseriouseffectsorcausinggreatpain:
It was a grievousheadwound, and he was notexpectedtosurvive.

grievously

adverbus
/ˈɡri·vəs·li/
He was grievouslyinjured.
(Definition ofgrievousfrom theCambridge Academic Content Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofgrievous

grievous
It seems to me that the police power has become the refuge of everygrievouswrong upon private property.
From theCambridge English Corpus
It would seem to be agrievousdisregard for the rules of his own method, a disregard motivated principally by moral emotion and political opinion.
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These past deprivations were associated with what we now understand to have beengrievousinjustices.
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Indeed, the restriction imposed by the enclosures on access to common resources was agrievousblow to the poorest segments of the rural population, 'pushing' them to urbanization.
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The same did not apply on sentencing at reoffence when a number of subjects received community disposals, including one who had been convicted of causinggrievousbodily harm.
From theCambridge English Corpus
Group histories ofgrievousexploitation or national independence are found not to explain patterns of secessionism.
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Regions sufferinggrievousnational crimes (such as mass deportation or conquest) tended to be no more separatist, on the whole, than groups not bearing such grievances.
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These words suggest that communal fields weregrievousnot only because they constituted forced labor, but also because they broke down established patterns of patronage and social and gender hierarchies.
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I respectfully suggest that that is likely to be agrievousunderestimate.
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Where that has happened those charged with inflictinggrievousbodily harm, or even causing death, have always been acquitted.
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We gave a timely warning of thegrievousconsequences, and we have, alas, been proved most tragically right.
FromEuroparl Parallel Corpus - English
An immense task of garrisoning, policing and administering will be thrown upon us, involving agrievousexpenditure of power, and still more of time.
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Hansard archive
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In any case, it would be wrong to suggest that our rearmament programme, considered independently, is so impossiblygrievousa burden.
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I believe there have been many expectations raised already and, perhaps, somegrievousdisappointments.
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Later that day, he was charged withgrievousbodily harm and false imprisonment.
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