severe distress
collocation in Englishmeaningsofsevereanddistress
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severe
adjective
uk/sɪˈvɪər/us/səˈvɪr/
causing very great pain, difficulty, worry, damage, etc.; ...
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distress
noun[U]
uk/dɪˈstres/us/dɪˈstres/
a feeling of extreme worry, sadness, ...
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(Definition ofsevereanddistressfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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This wave peaks in moderate distress, but tends to decline inseveredistress.
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In addition, they reported moreseveredistresson 14 of 18 physical symptoms, social concerns, and existential issues.
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According to this possibility, actions which take more effort or planning would be the ones which reduce in prevalence with moreseveredistress.
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The negative outcome was a health state withseveredistressin all six dimensions (the "worst-arthritis" health state, arbitrarily assigned a value of 0).
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This means that crying is an indicator of moreseveredistressamong men than women.
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A third possibility is thatseveredistressaffects the motivation to act.
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Some of the decline in self-help actions with moreseveredistresscould be due to these being abandoned as ineffective.
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They are safe and useful medications to palliateseveredistressin the terminal stage of cancer when administered with a low initial dosage and adequate titration.
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For professional help, there was a tendency for older people to have greater use in mild- moderate distress, but younger people to have greater use inseveredistress.
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Use of everyday strategies peaked with mild psychological distress, new self-help showed a peak in moderate distress, while professional help-seeking peaked inseveredistress.
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There is alreadyseveredistressamong people who need cars to get to work, to take children to school and to shop in nearby villages.
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Treatment would also be available for other men adjudged by a hospital specialist to be suffering fromseveredistress.
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The isolation, confusion and perceived lack of a future is often accompanied byseveredistressand depression, but there is a dire shortage of counsellors.
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Many of the settlers were ruined, or were in veryseveredistressas a consequence.
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It may not specifically be a question of pain, but it could well be construed asseveredistress.
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Interpretation of "serious illness"and"severedistress" is left entirely to their discretion.
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When it did, it had no oxygen for the patient, who was breathless and inseveredistress.
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These are diseases which certainly causeseveredistressin animals, but, in order to investigate them and their course in humans, it may be necessary to infect animals with them.
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