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单词 draconian
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draconianadjective

uk/drəˈkəʊ.ni.ən/us/drəˈkoʊ.ni.ən/formal

Draconian laws, government actions, etc. are extremely severe, or go further than what is right or necessary:

draconian laws/methods
He criticized the draconian measures taken by the police in controlling the demonstrators.

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Severe

  • an iron hand/fist in a velvet glove idiom
  • austere
  • authoritarian
  • be heavy on sb idiom
  • disciplinarian
  • flinty
  • hard
  • heavy
  • iron
  • rigour
  • roundly
  • rule sth with an iron hand/fist idiom
  • severe
  • severely
  • sharp
  • stern
  • strict
  • strictly
  • strictness
  • take a hard line on sb/sth idiom

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draconianadjective

us/drəˈkoʊ·ni·ən/

(esp. of a rule, law, or punishment) extremely severe:

The governor proposed draconian cuts in state aid to education.
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