severe deprivation
collocation in Englishmeaningsofsevereanddeprivation
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severe
adjective
uk/sɪˈvɪər/us/səˈvɪr/
causing very great pain, difficulty, worry, damage, etc.; ...
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deprivation
noun[C or U]
uk/ˌdep.rɪˈveɪ.ʃən/us/ˌdep.rəˈveɪ.ʃən/
a situation in which you do not have things or conditions that are usually considered necessary for a ...
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(Definition ofsevereanddeprivationfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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The bad harvest of 1795 threatenedseveredeprivation.
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Attachment disturbances and disorders in children exposed to earlyseveredeprivation.
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Do the effects of earlyseveredeprivationon cognition persist into early adolescence?
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There has always been a mixed economy of welfare, which assisted older people to survive - if only just and often in conditions ofseveredeprivation.
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Even afterseveredeprivation, the geniculocor tical connections retain sufficient information to largely determine the final orientation map.
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In some of the poorest neighbourhoods people faceseveredeprivation.
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Treatment of depressive disorders may require material assistance for those in situations ofseveredeprivationin addition to antidepressant drugs.
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The significance of individual differences in the subset ofseveredeprivationin humans is particularly marked.
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This dynamic fate commitment is retained even afterseveredeprivation.
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We now show that this dynamic fate commitment can be retained even afterseveredeprivationsufficient to cause massive loss of synaptic strength.
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Such normative data would yield a wealth of understanding, and would also serve to inform studies of children who experience adversity early in life, such as maltreatment orseveredeprivation.
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People in areas ofseveredeprivationsuffer from bad health.
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It also contains all the problems that resorts bring with them—for instance, areas ofseveredeprivation.
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The lack of good parenting is aseveredeprivationfor any child.
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Now, sadly, it facesseveredeprivationbecause of the closure of the mines.
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I want to look briefly at two groups which are sufferingseveredeprivationand in respect of which changes are needed.
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So serious money has been invested, targeted particularly at wards and small areas withseveredeprivation.
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Therefore, we have a situation ofseveredeprivation, poverty and humiliation which, in my opinion, is intolerable in a modern, affluent, civilised society.
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The major task will be to tackle theseveredeprivationin the region's major urban centres as well as in some of the smaller towns.
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