"severely modified" is a grammatically correct phrase and is commonly used in written English.
It means that something has been significantly changed or altered. You can use this phrase when describing changes made to an object, idea, or situation. Example: The original design of the building was severely modified to accommodate the new safety regulations.
The Fourteenth Amendment severely modified the situation.
Human intervention at the lower elevations has severely modified the entire drainage network of the Tien Shan.
Moreover, tectonic processes occurring during the Cenozoic (since 65.5 million years ago) have been different from those that occurred earlier and have severely modified the landscape.
Consequently, habitats are being lost and replaced by other, artificial habitats, or are being severely modified in deleterious ways.
These objections often held up expansion for many years and, in cities such as London and Munich, ultimately severely modified the development of new airports.
"It quite clearly was at some risk of being severely modified by whoever was to buy it, or potentially demolished," Mr. Harris said, recalling his first glimpses of the house.
This variation severely modifies DNA mechanical properties: the intercalating molecules act as a structural reinforcement, stiffening the whole DNA string structure.
Fire disturbance severely modifies ecosystem structure and functioning, and therefore predicting post-fire responses is pivotal to improve land management.
The difficulty in sine sweep testing is that the non-rigid load dynamics are unknown and it can severely modify the shaker's performance during sweep test.
These observations suggest that the normalization based on non-dominated solutions in the current population may severely modify the scale of each objective.
This is, again, an expected behavior since the state-of-the-art techniques are not designed to withstand attacks that severely modify the global spectral representation of the image.
