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/hˈɛvəli/ Listen

adverb

Heavily adv.

In a heavy manner; with great weight; as, to bear heavily on a thing; to be heavily loaded. "Heavily interested in those schemes of emigration."

As if burdened with a great weight; slowly and laboriously; with difficulty; hence, in a slow, difficult, or suffering manner; sorrowfully. "And took off their chariot wheels, that they drave them heavily." "Why looks your grace so heavily to-day?"

Greatly; intensely; as, heavily involved in a plot; heavily invested in real estate.

In large quantity; as, it rained heavily.

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... we looked cautiously into the chamber, and then into Sighard's, but there was no one there. This man had been alone, and he had fared badly. He lay yet as he had fallen, breathing heavily. ...

— A King's Comrade - A Story of Old Hereford • Charles Whistler

... the cellar, which they had visited last, when Edwards, who was apparently under the influence of liquor or strong excitement, called their attention in abusive language to the construction of the walls, at the same time rapping heavily with a cane upon the bricks of the foundation of a chimney. His blows were answered by a sound from within the chimney. It seemed at first like the sobbing of a child and then swelled into an indescribable scream, howl, or shriek. ...

— Practical English Composition: Book II. - For the Second Year of the High School • Edwin L. Miller

... my feet tread heavily; The sameness of this scene doth pierce my heart With thronging recollections of the past. There is nought chang'd—and what a world of care, Of sorrow, passion, pleasure have I known, Since but ...

— Cromwell • Alfred B. Richards

... weight class generally consists of heavily fulled goods, such as meltons, beavers, naps, etc., which give a heavier and warmer coat for winter use only, and where an exceptionally heavy coat is required, double and treble cloths ...

— Textiles • William H. Dooley

... what he stands to make on his play, I don't know. But I do know that the Western Lumber crowd is offering us only a quarter of what they'd be willing to pay if they had to. That means that they could afford to bribe Bayne Trevors pretty heavily and still save half a million on the deal if he succeeded in ...

— Judith of Blue Lake Ranch • Jackson Gregory

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