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Definition of acute:

  • (adjective) Extremely sharp or intense | keen | ending in a sharp point | High or shrill | of an angle; less than 90 degrees (acute-angled)
  • (nonun) a mark (') placed above a vowel (acute accent)

Sentence Examples:

It may become chronic after repeated acute attacks.

It would only make my remorse more acute.

Switzerland possesses national consciousness to an acute degree.

A feeling of acute horror swept over me.

The Eastern Question entered upon an acute phase.

Concentration enables any sense to become more acute.

It is acute with all of my people.

Quiet surroundings are essential in all acute illnesses.

This act seemed suspicious to the acute lad.

The need for funds became gradually more acute.

These performances of his cause me acute suffering.

He's always had an acute appreciation of values.

I had it in its most acute form.

The prognosis of acute mania is not unfavorable.

The distal end is acute to sharply acute.

Which of the acute diseases has he had?

A pang of acute humiliation gripped him hard.

Ramsay, and one day the irritation became acute.

This was a year of acute business depression.

Acute diseases are rarely observed in the arteries.

Laurent is a prey to most acute jealousy.

Hearing Whales appear to have very acute hearing.

The tail is more acute than the neck.

Some of his senses were not particularly acute.

This is the advent of the acute disease.

The ears of the sick are strangely acute.

It was here that the danger became acute.

His actual feeling was one of acute annoyance.

He had known some weeks of acute discomfort.

Said I not that my senses were acute?

It caused me very acute pain at the time.

The proceedings had reached the acute stage.

His passion had reached the acute key.

The tone of grievance in his voice became acute.

That which has all its angles acute.

The acute attack dated back six weeks.

"All the senses very acute," he said.

Came from Charlie in a voice of acute curiosity.

Will they be acute enough to read me thus?

He began to feel a sort of acute disappointment.

To write of it even now is acute pain.

You see the question of succession is becoming acute.

Lambert was suffering from acute nervous strain.

Can anything be done to relieve situation, now acute?

He remained rooted to the floor in acute surprise.

He turned on her a gaze of acute distress.

It is the induction of an acute specific disease.

"He seems a pretty acute sort of youth."

The ascent was becoming more and more acute.

The acute intelligence opposite him took faint alarm.

The political tension grew more and more acute.

In a moment the acute danger was past.

Never before had he known such acute anxiety.

The present severe weather causes much acute distress.

With an acute sense of the applicant's identity.

That enterprise the acute reader has easily guessed.

Above all was the sense of hearing acute.

Every attack is more acute than the last.

Others with a sense of hearing most acute.

It even seems to become more acute as civilization progresses.

He was singularly acute in forming his conclusions.

All of which Madame saw, with acute eyes.

Desmond had a brief moment of acute suspense.

The sensation developed into pain that grew acute.

The mental faculties of pointers are extremely acute.

The blind are always acute in other senses.

The leaves are narrow, lance-shaped, acute, saw-edged, rough.

More rarely there is most acute abdominal pain.

The Emperor started as from an acute shock.

The contest now entered upon an acute stage.

"There was nothing to cause her acute grief?"

The perceptions of the dog are wonderfully acute.

Even after the restoration its sufferings were acute.

The distal end may be acute or broad.

And an extraordinarily acute criticism of modern conditions!

As yet the acute brain refused to work.

I never saw it acute, but always chronic.

At all events he acted with acute alarm.

My trouble is not so acute just now.

There is no better remedy for acute sorrow.

The sense of smell is not very acute.

Powell had learned to associate with acute distress.

He has a singularly acute and logical intellect.

I consider my sense of smell very acute.

Acute cases yield very quickly as a rule.

May one acute angle be greater than another?

What three acute angles equal one right angle?

Acute pain is from strained ligaments and bruises.

The camel's sense of smell is very acute.

Her observation is acute, her word-painting well-nigh exquisite.

Many complained of acute pains in the head.

The hearing of the horse is remarkably acute.

Its sense of hearing is probably very acute.

She stared in acute embarrassment at her feet.

Colonel Hayden uttered a sigh of acute disappointment.

The torture was a thousand times more acute.

In the acute form sheep become ill suddenly.

Acute hepatitis is unknown among horses in England.

And yet he was conscious of acute suffering.

Through that, the situation had become extraordinarily acute.