heavilyadverb
uk/ˈhev.əl.i/us/ˈhev.əl.i/heavily adverb (TO A GREAT DEGREE)
B1 to a great degree:
The terrorists are heavily armed.
The compound is heavily guarded.
She's heavily involved in the project.
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- Estimates of the amount of money needed to decontaminate the heavily polluted chemical installations vary.
- The country depends heavily on foreign aid.
- It had snowed heavily during the night and in the morning the garden was a white fairyland.
- The forest has been so heavily logged that it is in danger of disappearing.
- When I saw him after the accident he was still in shock and was heavily sedated.
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Linguistics: very & extreme
- abject
- awful
- badly
- beyond
- classic
- classical
- devastating
- drop dead! idiom
- eminently
- esp
- especially
- heartily
- impossibly
- perfect
- sheer
- specially
- supremely
- thoroughly
- whole
- wide
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heavily adverb (WEIGHT)
with force, or in a way that needs a lot of effort to move or lift:
a heavily loaded truck
She fell heavily on her back.
a heavily pregnant woman
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Thick, dense and heavy
- chunky
- clunky
- cumbersome
- dense
- densely
- density
- encumber
- heaviness
- heavy
- hefty
- ponderous
- sludgy
- thick
- thicken
- thickness
- unwieldy
- weight
- weighty
- wiry
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heavily adverb (DIFFICULT)
in a way that is difficult to accept or deal with:
The news she had received weighed heavily on her (= worried her).
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Thick, dense and heavy
- chunky
- clunky
- cumbersome
- dense
- densely
- density
- encumber
- heaviness
- heavy
- hefty
- ponderous
- sludgy
- thick
- thicken
- thickness
- unwieldy
- weight
- weighty
- wiry
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heavily adverb (SOLID)
in a strong, thick, or solid way:
He's a heavily built (= large and strong) man.
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Animal physiology: fat or well-built
- ample
- baby fat
- beefy
- blubber
- broad in the beam idiom
- buxom
- chubby
- dumpy
- fatness
- fatten sb/sth up
- fatty
- heavyset
- husky
- obese
- obesity
- pudgy
- puppy fat
- roly-poly
- rotund
- well built
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Idiom(s)
be heavily into sth