extreme
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- If something is extreme it is very different from normal.
- This disease usually causes mild illness, but in extreme cases can cause death.
- Few animals can live in the extreme cold of the far north.
- An extreme is a situation or idea taken to its limit, especially with two opposites.
- When there is a crime, you have a range of choices. At one extreme you can do nothing. At the other extreme, you can kill the person.
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