Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adverb With a great weight or burden.
- adverb Very slowly and with difficulty; laboriously.
- adverb Greatly or severely.
from The Century Dictionary.
- In a heavy manner; with great weight or burden.
- Hence With oppression or difficulty; grievously; dejectedly; tediously.
- Densely; thickly: as, heavily bearded; heavily timbered.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adverb In a heavy manner; with great weight
- adverb As if burdened with a great weight; slowly and laboriously; with difficulty; hence, in a slow, difficult, or suffering manner; sorrowfully.
- adverb Greatly; intensely.
- adverb In large quantity.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adverb in a
heavy manner - adverb with a great weight
- adverb to a
considerable degree , to a great extent - adverb in a manner designed for heavy duty
- adverb so as to be
thick orheavy - adverb in a
laboured manner
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adverb in a heavy-footed manner
- adverb slowly as if burdened by much weight
- adverb in a manner designed for heavy duty
- adverb in a labored manner
- adverb indulging excessively
- adverb with great force
- adverb to a considerable degree
Etymologies
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Examples
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I think it’s also worth mentioning that the “men shop for power tools and women shop for curtains” phenomenon is something that is, if not outright created, heavily, *heavily* influenced by our society.
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In a brief statement, the museum's communications department stressed that untoward incidents have been few and far between during the run of what it described as a heavily trafficked show.
NYT > Home Page By CLAUDIA LA ROCCO 2010
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I'm prone to inordinate "screen time," a term heavily freighted with negative baggage in our household, and Levi's childhood will be far more digitally immersed than mine.
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The way the Republicans are losing House Seats in "heavily" favored republican districts ... if I were John McCain I would be "very" worried about November.
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President Obama remains relatively popular in heavily Democratic Maryland, but most voters say he will not factor into their vote in next week's governor's race, a new Washington Post poll has found.
Post Maryland PollObama popular, but not big factor in governor's race John Wagner 2010
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The Post's Michael Laris writes about a small Republican enclave in heavily Democratic Montgomery County, where voters sometimes feel disconnected from the elected officials making the decisions.
Lori's A.M. Buzz: Who's calling, please? Washington Post editors 2010
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Borrowing heavily from a document inspired principally by the major Hollywood studios and Big 4 record labels, the ‘report’ claims Canada is the file swapping capital of the world.
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The rally is likely to give Conway a boost, although some Democrats have questioned the decision to hold the rally in heavily-Democratic Lexington rather than in more rural parts of the state.
Voters still want pork in their home districts Chris Cillizza 2010
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It is undisputed that both "November" and "Tax" borrow heavily from the respective originals.
MA GOP's lame ad and James Taylor's copyright: upon further analysis, it's still not "fair use" 2010
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President Obama remains relatively popular in heavily Democratic Maryland, but most voters say he will not factor into their vote in next week's governor's race, a new Washington Post poll has found.
First Click, Maryland:Republican Congress a 'good thing'? Voters split. Aaron C. Davis 2010
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