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Webster 1913 Edition


Heavily

Heav′i-ly

,
adv.
[From 2d
Heavy
.]
1.
In a heavy manner; with great weight;
as, to bear
heavily
on a thing; to be
heavily
loaded.
Heavily
interested in those schemes of emigration.
The Century.
2.
As if burdened with a great weight; slowly and laboriously; with difficulty; hence, in a slow, difficult, or suffering manner; sorrowfully.
And took off their chariot wheels, that they drave them
heavily
.
Ex. xiv. 25.
Why looks your grace so
heavily
to-day?
Shakespeare

Webster 1828 Edition


Heavily

HEAV'ILY

,
adv.
hev'ily. [from heavy.] With great weight; as, to bear heavily on a thing; to be heavily loaded.
1.
With great weight of grief; grievously; afflictively. When calamities fall heavily on the christian, he finds consolation in Christ.
2.
Sorrowfully; with grief.
I came hither to transport the tidings,
Which I have heavily borne.
3.
With an air of sorrow or dejection.
Why looks your Grace so heavily to day?
4.
With weight; oppressively. Taxes sometimes bear heavily on the people.
5.
Slowly and laboriously; with difficulty; as, to move heavily.
So they drove them heavily. Ex.14.

Definition 2024


heavily

heavily

English

Adverb

heavily (comparative more heavily, superlative most heavily)

  1. In a heavy manner.
    She fell heavily into bed.
    He clomped heavily up the stairs in his boots.
    The great clod trod heavily on my toes!
    • 1922, Ben Travers, chapter 5, in A Cuckoo in the Nest:
      The departure was not unduly prolonged. [] Within the door Mrs. Spoker hastily imparted to Mrs. Love a few final sentiments on the subject of Divine Intention in the disposition of buckets; [] ; a deep, guttural instigation to the horse; and the wheels of the waggonette crunched heavily away into obscurity.
  2. With a great weight.
    heavily burdened
  3. To a considerable degree, to a great extent.
    He relied heavily on the data collected by the others.
    He drank heavily.
    heavily in debt;   heavily tattooed
    • 1977, Agatha Christie, An Autobiography, Part I, chapter4:
      An indulgent playmate, Grannie would lay aside the long scratchy-looking letter she was writing (heavily crossed ‘to save notepaper’) and enter into the delightful pastime of ‘a chicken from Mr Whiteley's’.
  4. In a manner designed for heavy duty.
    heavily armed soldiers;   heavily armoured tanks;   heavily reinforced walls
    • 1963, Margery Allingham, chapter 14, in The China Governess:
      Nanny Broome was looking up at the outer wall.  Just under the ceiling there were three lunette windows, heavily barred and blacked out in the normal way by centuries of grime.
  5. So as to be thick or heavy.
    heavily built young men;   his heavily muscled arms
  6. In a laboured manner.
    he breathed heavily

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