grave
He was gravely wounded, and his right arm was amputated.
"It is a rather confidential matter," Bragg said gravely.
When her brother fell gravely ill, doctors told Christine that he was brain dead.

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Serious and severe
acutely
acuteness
advanced
catastrophic
catastrophically
chronic
dire
fatal
grave
heaviness
hyperacute
non-fatal
non-serious
seriously
severe
stringent
terminal
terminally
toughness
utmost

Examples of gravely

gravely
If trust deteriorates too gravely, then a failure of the parties to reach simpatico will result and distrust will emerge.
They are also gravely ill, with the result that ethical considerations add to the difficulty in studying them comprehensively.
Do patients want physicians to inquire about their spiritual or religious beliefs if they become gravely ill?
They gravely underestimated the damage done to governmental institutions, banks and private firms by the economic and political chaos of 1976-83.
The street elevation is symmetrical and gravely composed, while the rear freely expresses the workings of the plan, most tellingly with its asymmetrical stair tower.
They gravely hinder the author's attempts to establish a visual argument.
The absence of such incentives under the present rules gravely undermines the effectiveness even of donated drugs delivered into poor regions.
However, as these mistakes are only very minor, they should not gravely affect the results.
The criminal-justice system was also gravely weak : for every 450 crimes reported, a study indicated, there were 100 prosecutions, 77 convictions, and only 36 imprisonments.
They are ' gravely deprived, crimped and mean ' (436).
This decision left both authors vulnerable to being gravely misunderstood.
The health of the citizens is gravely affected.
However, at present, the proposed systems fall gravely short in addressing another crucial issue, feeding the world population.
He is gravely ill, and everybody is anxiously waiting to see whether the new bone marrow will take.
Above all, this is a gravely joyous work, quite dizzyingly beautiful, at a level where discussions of idiom, influence and up-to-dateness appear woefully beside the point.
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