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REPEATEDLY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does repeatedly mean? 

REPEATEDLY (adverb)
  The adverb REPEATEDLY has 1 sense:

1. several timeplay

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


 Dictionary entry details 


REPEATEDLY (adverb)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Several time

Context example:

it must be washed repeatedly

Pertainym:

repeated (recurring again and again)


 Context examples 


She rolled him off his legs so that he could not run, while she repeatedly ripped and slashed him with her fangs.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

I think, Harriet, since your acquaintance with us, you have been repeatedly in the company of some such very real gentlemen, that you must yourself be struck with the difference in Mr. Martin.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

The mudstone indicates the presence of bodies of standing water in the form of lakes that remained for long periods of time, possibly repeatedly expanding and contracting during hundreds to millions of years.

(NASA's Curiosity Rover Team Confirms Ancient Lakes on Mars, NASA)

Miss Crawford, who had been repeatedly eyeing Dr.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

But the control must be done synchronously over large areas because other diseases could repeatedly re-invade from outside the controlled area.

(Researchers model ways to control deadly maize disease, SciDev.Net)

From this time Captain Wentworth and Anne Elliot were repeatedly in the same circle.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)

He said so repeatedly; other things he said too, which marked the turn of his feelings and gave the lie to his actions.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

Neuropsychiatric Inventory (NPI) Does the patient repeatedly put on and take off clothing?

(NPI - Repeatedly Put On and Take Off Clothing, NCI Thesaurus)

I talked to her repeatedly in the most serious manner, representing to her all the wickedness of what she had done, and all the unhappiness she had brought on her family.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

Mrs. Waterbrook repeatedly told us, that if she had a weakness, it was Blood.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)



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