Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In a rapid manner; swiftly; quickly; at a fast rate.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adverb In a rapid manner.
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- adverb With
speed ; in arapid manner.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adverb with rapid movements
Etymologies
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Examples
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It is obvious that this tendency cannot be reversed, no matter how rapidly the people's income is increased, unless it rises _more rapidly_ than that of the well-to-do.
Socialism As It Is A Survey of The World-Wide Revolutionary Movement William English Walling
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Everytime I played a disc in my laptop, you could slightly hear the label rapidly scraping against something in my DVD drive.
VideoHelp.com Forum 2008
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Everytime I played a disc in my laptop, you could slightly hear the label rapidly scraping against something in my DVD drive.
VideoHelp.com Forum 2008
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Mr Clegg's hope that his colleague will clear his name "rapidly" so that he can "return to play a key role in government as soon as possible" was notably not echoed by David Cameron.
Why more of the Lib Dems now want to be like Chris Huhne | Andrew Rawnsley 2012
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It set the whole country to choosing up sides, and its title rapidly became a generic name.
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The right-wing Afrikaner Resistance Movement/Afrikaner Weerstandsbeweging (AWB), has announced its re-activation to combat what it describes as a rapidly-deteriorating situation in South Africa.
WN.com - Articles related to Zuma Seeks to Calm South Africa After Killing 2010
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The right-wing Afrikaner Resistance Movement/Afrikaner Weerstandsbeweging (AWB), has announced its re-activation to combat what it describes as a rapidly-deteriorating situation in South Africa.
WN.com - Articles related to Zuma Seeks to Calm South Africa After Killing 2010
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The right-wing Afrikaner Resistance Movement/Afrikaner Weerstandsbeweging (AWB), has announced its re-activation to combat what it describes as a rapidly-deteriorating situation in South Africa.
WN.com - Articles related to Zuma Seeks to Calm South Africa After Killing 2010
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The right-wing Afrikaner Resistance Movement/Afrikaner Weerstandsbeweging (AWB), has announced its re-activation to combat what it describes as a rapidly-deteriorating situation in South Africa.
WN.com - Articles related to Zuma Seeks to Calm South Africa After Killing 2010
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However, the Arewa Consultative Forum (ACF) expressed concern over what it described as the rapidly deteriorating liquidity situation in the banking industry and tasked the Central Bank
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