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grievous
adjective as in severe, painful; serious
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Example Sentences
They deny all charges and Mr Corner denies an additional allegation of causing grievous bodily harm.
He faces charges of causing grievous bodily harm to 309 people and causing dangerous interference to road traffic.
Jhangur, of Whiteways Road, Sheffield, was found guilty in July of murder, three counts of causing grievous bodily harm with intent and one of wounding with intent relating to those also hurt.
Scenes like this are tricky enough to pull off tastefully in dramatized films, but here, the sequence feels impossibly grievous.
It is a major moment in this most grievous Gaza war.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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