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ANYMORE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does anymore mean? 

ANYMORE (adverb)
  The adverb ANYMORE has 1 sense:

1. at the present or from now on; usually used with a negativeplay

  Familiarity information: ANYMORE used as an adverb is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


ANYMORE (adverb)


Sense 1

Meaning:

At the present or from now on; usually used with a negative

Synonyms:

any longer; anymore

Context example:

the children promised not to quarrel any more


 Context examples 


Today, the universe is so diffuse that it cannot create such objects anymore.

(Telescopes Uncover Early Construction of Giant Galaxy, NASA)

If we could stiffen up that cell with a drug, maybe it wouldn't move anymore.

(Materials, like metallic glass, can help us understand how cells break, NSF)

"I suspect that if their numbers in a cave fall, they can't hunt in groups anymore and might die out even if some of them don't get caught by hunters," Dinets said.

(Snakes Hunt in Groups, Study Suggests, VOA)

Your doctor may recommend it if you have knee pain and medicine and other treatments are not helping you anymore.

(Knee Replacement, NIH)

These are some examples, but as soon as you get to March 30 when Mars moves into Aquarius, you won’t have to be secretive anymore.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

I can't dance anymore, but as soon as supper is over, watch for Hannah and tell me the minute she comes.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

But so little were they, anymore than the others, inclined to oblige her, that if Sir John dined from home, she might spend a whole day without hearing any other raillery on the subject, than what she was kind enough to bestow on herself.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

If you have been frustrated with clients and management’s lack of decisiveness or slowness to approve and fund your ideas, that won’t be a problem anymore.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

What shall we do when we can't eat anymore? asked Laurie, feeling that his trump card had been played when lunch was over.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

This month, you might find a way to save by cutting recurring expenses you don’t need or enjoy anymore.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)



 Learn English with... Proverbs 
"Fine feathers make fine birds." (English proverb)

"With a spade of gold and a hoe of silver even the mountains rock and sway." (Albanian proverb)

"However much fruit a tree gives, it humbles its head that much more." (Armenian proverb)

"Think before you begin." (Dutch proverb)


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