Both Uses of
acute
in
Heart of Darkness
- Near the same tree two more bundles of acute angles sat with their legs drawn up.†
Chpt 1 *
- When next day we left at noon, the crowd, of whose presence behind the curtain of trees I had been acutely conscious all the time, flowed out of the woods again, filled the clearing, covered the slope with a mass of naked, breathing, quivering, bronze bodies.†
Chpt 3 *
Definitions:
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(acute angle as in: an acute angle) ending in a narrow point or angle; or describing an angle measuring less than 90 degrees
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(acute as in: acute pain) sharp (severe or strong) -- usually negative