increasing severity
collocation in Englishmeaningsofincreaseandseverity
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increase
noun[C or U]
uk/ˈɪn.kriːs/us/ˈɪn.kriːs/
a rise in the amount or size ...
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severity
noun[U]
uk/sɪˈver.ə.ti/us/səˈver.ə.t̬i/
seriousness:
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(Definition ofincreaseandseverityfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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Over time, the lack of fertiliser impacted withincreasingseverityon the yields of plantations already suffering from the effects of fuel shortages.
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With professional help, use increases steadily withincreasingseverity.
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The classification is based on the severity of the displacement of the septal and posteroinferior leaflets, with four grades ofincreasingseverity.
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Furthermore,increasingseverityof dependence is related to increased psychological and psychiatric problems, and treatment for these additional problems improves prognosis.
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Withincreasingseverity, however, abnormalities ofventricular function ensue, and thereby limit exercise capacity.
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We view the movement through the trajectory as reflecting growth in deviancy and a general progression towardincreasingseverity.
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Better educated people also showed greater use of some self-help actions, as well as a difference in pattern of actions taken withincreasingseverity.
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The systolic murmur becomes softer and shorter withincreasingseverityof pulmonary stenosis, since less blood traverses the right ventricular outflow tract.
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Victorian courts had done their best to challenge the concept and to punish wifebeaters withincreasingseverity.
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Thus, there appears to beincreasingseverityand earlier onset of the illness that is passed from one generation to the next.
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Each item consists of three choices, keyed 0, 1, or 2, with higher scores indicatingincreasingseverity.
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These abnormalities clearly represent a complex of abnormalities ofincreasingseverity.
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Table 2 shows that for all measures there were strong and highly significant tendencies for rates of recall to increase withincreasingseverityor chronicity.
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It is due to theincreasingseverityof the submarine menace.
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The working classes are faced with this problem of rents every day withincreasingseverity.
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Unless we change our dock scheme to take regard of that fact we shall face problems of increasing severance and ofincreasingseverity.
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