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adverb

Heavily adv.

In a heavy manner; with great weight; as, to bear heavily on a thing; to be heavily loaded. "Heavily interested in those schemes of emigration."

As if burdened with a great weight; slowly and laboriously; with difficulty; hence, in a slow, difficult, or suffering manner; sorrowfully. "And took off their chariot wheels, that they drave them heavily." "Why looks your grace so heavily to-day?"

Greatly; intensely; as, heavily involved in a plot; heavily invested in real estate.

In large quantity; as, it rained heavily.

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Etymology of 'Heavily'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Heavily" Quotes from Famous Books

... cheerful courage that never failed. But the spectacle of wide-spread popular demoralization, of selfish scramble for plunder, and of feeble administration at the centre of government, weighed upon him heavily." And all this at the period of the French alliance, which it was thought would soon end the war. Indeed, hostilities were practically over at the North, and hence the public lassitude. Nearly two years had passed ...

— Beacon Lights of History, Volume XI • John Lord

... doubt if any aid would avail Mayes. He was the under man in the fall, and he had dropped across a little heap of bricks. He now lay unconscious, breathing heavily, with a terrible wound at the back of the head, and Hewitt foretold—and rightly—that when the doctor did come he would find a broken spine. Peytral, on the other hand, though unconscious, showed no sign of ...

— The Red Triangle - Being Some Further Chronicles of Martin Hewitt, Investigator • Arthur Morrison

... recognized the splendid animals that drew it. They were Joy Gastell's. And Joy Gastell drove them. The hood of her squirrel-skin parka was tossed back, revealing the cameo-like oval of her face outlined against her heavily-massed hair. Mittens had been discarded, and with bare hands she clung to whip ...

— Smoke Bellew • Jack London

... acceptance of the trust, and consigned the stamps to a resting place alongside the crystal. And then, after a little, she spoke heavily: ...

— Heart of the Blue Ridge • Waldron Baily

... first sound of Mrs. Perkins's footsteps in the kitchen below her. She dressed slowly, her heart heavy with the sense of having made a probably needless sacrifice. With the waking in the familiar old room, all the realization of that which she had lost had come heavily upon her. Why was not the sunlight pouring in through portholes, bearing the refreshing breezes from the sea, instead of beating in over the hot tin roof of the ell upon which her windows looked? Was it merely as Aunt Olivia had ...

— Under the Country Sky • Grace S. Richmond

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