I don't mean literally - there are many ways of withdrawing in order to make others take more responsibility.

I mean literally; she resembles a canine.

Sometimes, this means literally taking out our ear buds.

For me, that meant literally walking across the street and ringing a doorbell.

Here many zeros may mean literally a lot of zeros, or as few as one zero but with a high multiplicity, or even many zeros all with high multiplicity.