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PROFUSELY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does profusely mean? 

PROFUSELY (adverb)
  The adverb PROFUSELY has 1 sense:

1. in an abundant mannerplay

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


 Dictionary entry details 


PROFUSELY (adverb)


Sense 1

Meaning:

In an abundant manner

Synonyms:

abundantly; copiously; extravagantly; profusely

Context example:

he thanked her profusely


 Context examples 


It had been ripped almost in half, and was still bleeding profusely.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

His face was a strong—a very strong—aquiline, with high bridge of the thin nose and peculiarly arched nostrils; with lofty domed forehead, and hair growing scantily round the temples but profusely elsewhere.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

And now vegetation matured with vigour; Lowood shook loose its tresses; it became all green, all flowery; its great elm, ash, and oak skeletons were restored to majestic life; woodland plants sprang up profusely in its recesses; unnumbered varieties of moss filled its hollows, and it made a strange ground-sunshine out of the wealth of its wild primrose plants: I have seen their pale gold gleam in overshadowed spots like scatterings of the sweetest lustre.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)



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