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[ adjective ] forceful and extreme and rigorous

Examples

"drastic measures"

Used in print

(Jaroslav Pelikan, The Shape of Death: life, death and...)

Because Christianity teaches not_only salvation in history , but salvation by the history of Christ , such an interpretation of death would require a drastic revision of the Christian understanding of the work of Christ .

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Phonetic and Homophones

D R AE1 S T IH0 K

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