Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In a hysterical manner; spasmodically.
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- adverb in a
hysterical manner
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- adverb in a hysterical manner
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Examples
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How you could even type that without laughiing hysterically is beyond me.
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I can hear her screaming his name hysterically on the audio.
Jon Klane: Denver on the Dole: Change on the Cheap at the DNC 2008
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Are we reacting excuse the expression hysterically?
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I laughed hysterically from the sad shape this one was in.
Dell hell: fell post bell. Yell: sell pell-mell!. « BuzzMachine 2005
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Are we reacting excuse the expression hysterically?
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He currently is in California searching for containers filled with billions of dollars taken in Iraq, but stops in his tracks when his fourteen year old nephew Gabe calls hysterically from DC.
Vanished-Joseph Finder « The Merry Genre Go Round Reviews 2009
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He was nearly to the doorway of the Kaiko no Kemushi, the Silkworm Caterpillar -- any form of bug, particularly caterpillars, elicited greater disgust from japanese than even cockroaches did for Americans, so most of his japanese customers found the restaurant's name hysterically funny Then it happened.
Wagers of Sin Asprin, Robert 1996
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She ran to Mrs. Dent's bedroom and called hysterically:
The Wind in the rose-bush and other stories of the supernatural Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman 1891
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The same people who called hysterically for less government are now demanding more of it.
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The same people who called hysterically for less government are now demanding more of it.
Environment news, comment and analysis from the Guardian | guardian.co.uk 2010
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