MUCH AS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does much as mean? 

• MUCH AS (adverb)
  The adverb MUCH AS has 1 sense:

1. in a similar way

  Familiarity information: MUCH AS used as an adverb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• MUCH AS (adverb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

In a similar way

Synonyms:

much as; very much like

 Context examples 

But it was not that which hurt so much as what she took to be his lack of pride and self-respect.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

Rest! He has only come three and twenty miles today; all nonsense; nothing ruins horses so much as rest; nothing knocks them up so soon.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)

You will see him with the rest of us, in the same manner, and, as much as you can, dismissing the recollection of everything unpleasant.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

I ate no other supper, being resolved to spare my provisions as much as I could.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

The Harvilles silenced all scruples; and, as much as they could, all gratitude.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)

I will never so much as breathe the same air with you again!

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

"All the same," said the Scarecrow, "she needs a heart as much as the Tin Woodman."

(The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, by L. Frank Baum)

This she did, and when he had eaten as much as he could, he said, “Now I am tired; carry me upstairs, and put me into your bed.”

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

In contrast, wind can increase ventilation rates by as much as 40% above that which is driven by a temperature difference between a room and the outdoors.

(Wind more effective than cold air at cooling rooms naturally, University of Cambridge)

There was a seriousness in Harriet's manner which prepared her, quite as much as her words, for something more than ordinary.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)