sévère in English:

Censorious people delight in casting blame.

severe life

In severe cases, cracks can form or it can snap apart.

There is a severe shortage of water in this city, so we must give up having a bath occasionally.

The stages of psychosexual development—oral, anal, phallic, latent, and genital—turn out to be one big Freudian slip, betraying severe anal retention on the part of the taxonomist.

Company A is trying to play us off against Company B in a severe price-war.

Happy him who with ease can steer, from grave to gay, from lively to severe.

Major Cold: It's the day of the year that the cold is most severe, but you could also say that Spring is just coming around the corner.

A cute kitten can make a giggling mess even out of the most severe übermensch.

Holding the Olympics where there's severe atmospheric pollution gives rise to a great risk for athletes.

This is a ​school for ​children with severe ​learning difficulties. In ​parts of ​Africa there is a severe ​food/​water ​shortage. There is ​expected to be a severe ​frost ​tonight. Severe ​cutbacks in ​public ​spending have been ​announced.

My condition is so severe that I have to go to hospital. The severe winter killed all of our farm animals.

20 patients suffered from severe side effects. These effects were caused by medicines not connected with the study.

However, he is very severe to those pupils who do not want to study and dislikes those who are arrogant and conceited.

I burned my hand in the hot water. It was pretty severe, so I went to the hospital.

Stalls also can occur at unusually high speeds in severe turbulence or in low level wind shear

I got it through my head that my parent's strict rules were for my own benefit.

stricter control

Produced to strict organic standards.

Strict security measures were in force.

Along with the plants, animal life, too, was developing in harmony with the strict requirements of the land.

Belinda tried strict diets, grueling exercise routines, and some sort of esoteric New Age detox, all amounting to nothing--she had curves, and that was that.

A strict father makes his children toe the line by thorough training.

Early American colonists often had extremely strict work ethics inspired by their unique take on Christianity.

I have amongst my relatives, a single one who sincerely lives righteously, has strict principles and pursues an ideal, but all my other relatives speak ill and make fun of him.

The wealthy, self-indulgent young man felt oddly drawn to the strict, ascetic life led by members of some monastic orders.

My ​parents were very strict with me when I was ​young. The ​school is an ​old-fashioned ​institution with strict ​discipline.

I think many pupils prefer teachers to be strict because there are fewer problems with discipline.

Jamie loves meat but his wife is a strict vegetarian.

strict rules/regulations

In the strict sense of the term, a true democracy has never existed, and never will exist. It is against natural order that the great number should govern and that the few should be governed.