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extreme

Definition for extreme

adjective as in very great

Strongest matches

acute, intense, severe, utmost

adjective as in faraway

noun as in ultimate; limit

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He’s an extreme case of a phenomenon that has an official name: post-founder syndrome.

“It’s pretty extreme. I worked for six months to get two enormous bottle trees here.”

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However, the league does provide general guidance for supporters on safe ticket buying, publishes a list of known unauthorised ticket websites and urges fans to exercise extreme caution when dealing with these websites.

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Fulani families traditionally walk for hundreds of kilometres from the extreme north to central Nigeria and beyond at least twice a year to find land for their prized cattle.

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The malleability of the dog genome allows for enormous physical variety, she explained, meaning that breeders can push features to extremes—squashing snouts, piling on wrinkles.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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