Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adverb Thoroughly.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Completely; wholly; thoroughly.
- Without reserve; thoroughly; carefully; earnestly.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adverb obsolete Thoroughly.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adverb archaic
Thoroughly ,completely .
Etymologies
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Examples
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When the Lord washes a soul it is "throughly" done, and every strand is white in holiness.
My Daily Meditation for the Circling Year John Henry Jowett
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I think all of us have to be very careful and conscious about our guns and gun safety, no matter how old are kids are, and how throughly, and repeatedly, we train them.
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I cut out all the fat, take each piece of meat and throughly wash it then freeze it in vacum sealed bags.
any proven way to take the wild taste out of deer meat? 2009
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I cut away all of the fat and grisel and throughly wash all of the blood from the meat.
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I cut out all the fat, take each piece of meat and throughly wash it then freeze it in vacum sealed bags.
any proven way to take the wild taste out of deer meat? 2009
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I think all of us have to be very careful and conscious about our guns and gun safety, no matter how old are kids are, and how throughly, and repeatedly, we train them.
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I know because GTMO, Abu Ghraib, and Bagram had been throughly investigated.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Lawyers, Treason, and Deception: A Response to Andrew McCarthy 2010
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Ken I throughly enjoyed your interpretation of the genetics as relating to wildlife.
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I know because GTMO, Abu Ghraib, and Bagram had been throughly investigated.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Lawyers, Treason, and Deception: A Response to Andrew McCarthy 2010
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Ken I throughly enjoyed your interpretation of the genetics as relating to wildlife.
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