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heavily

adv
/ˈhɛvɪli/

Etymology

From Middle English hevely, hevyliche, from Old English hefiġlīċe (“heavily; grievously”), equivalent to heavy + -ly.

  1. inherited from hefiġlīċe — “heavily; grievously”
  2. inherited from hevely

Definitions

  1. With a great weight.

    • heavily burdened
    • She fell heavily into bed.
    • He clomped heavily up the stairs in his boots.

  2. To a considerable degree, to a great extent.

    • He relied heavily on the data collected by the others.
    • Your advice still weighs heavily with me.
    • This problem weighs heavily on my mind.

  3. In a manner designed for heavy duty.

    • heavily armed soldiers; heavily armoured tanks; heavily reinforced walls
    • 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.
  4. ›+ 2 more definitions

    1. So as to be thick or heavy.

      • heavily built young men; his heavily muscled arms

    2. In a laboured manner.

      • he breathed heavily

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at heavily. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at heavily. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

9 hops · closes at heavily

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

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