Extremity definition

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extremities
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Grave danger, necessity, or distress.

People in extremity.

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An extreme or severe measure.

Had to resort to extremities in the crisis.

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The outermost or utmost point or part; end.
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The definition of an extremity is a limb of the body, the outer part of something, or a state of danger.

An example of an extremity is a foot.

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A bodily limb.

She is in a wheelchair because of weakness of the lower extremities.

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The hands and feet.

Frostbite affects the extremities first.

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The greatest degree.
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A state of extreme necessity, danger, etc.
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(archaic) The end of life; dying.
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An extreme measure; severe or strong action.
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A body limb.
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The hands and feet.
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The outermost or farthest point or portion.

At the extremity of the peninsula.

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The greatest or utmost degree.

The extremity of despair.

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Grave danger, necessity, or distress.

People in extremity.

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An extreme or severe measure.

Had to resort to extremities in the crisis.

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A bodily limb.

Weakness in the lower extremities.

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The hands and feet.

Frostbite affects the extremities first.

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The most extreme or furthest point of something.
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An extreme measure.
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A hand or foot.

Guillian-Barré syndrome causes one to not be able to move one's extremities.

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A limb (major appendage of human or animal such as a leg an arm or a wing)
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The outermost or farthest point or portion.

At the extremity of the peninsula.

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The greatest or utmost degree.

The extremity of despair.

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Singular:
extremity
Plural:
extremities

Origin of extremity

  • From Middle English extremite, from Old French extremite, from Latin extremitas (“the extremity or end”), from extremis (“furthest, extreme”); see extreme.

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Extremity Sentence Examples

  • Two fine inlets, Berkeley Sound and Port William, run far into the land at the northeastern extremity of the island.

  • They are placed on a line joining the north end of Sumatra and Cape Negrais, the south-western extremity of Burma.

  • On its western extremity it is linked by secondary ranges to the mountain system of Morocco.

  • In Heliodrilus the blind extremity of the spermatheca is enclosed in a coelomic sac which is in connexion with the sacs envolving the ovaries and oviducts.

  • Two other states on the northern extremity of the island were so far devastated by the Tambora eruption of 1815 that their territory, after lying for long uninhabited, was in 1866 divided between Dompo and Sangar.

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