Adverb

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Very close to, but not quite.

Almost all people went there. - Not all but very close to it.

We almost missed the train. - Not missed but very close to it.

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Adverb

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(lb) Likewise.

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, title= The Mirror and the Lamp , passage=The preposterous altruism too !

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(lb) Also; in addition.

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*:They burned the old gun that used to stand in the dark corner up in the garret, close to the stuffed fox that always grinned so fiercely. Perhaps the reason why he seemed in such a ghastly rage was that he did not come by his death fairly. Otherwise his pelt would not have been so perfect. And why else was he put away up there out of sight?—and so magnificent a brush as he had too .

*{{quote-magazine, date=2013-07-19, author=(Timothy Garton Ash)

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(lb) To an excessive degree; over; more than enough.

*{{quote-magazine, date=2013-08-03, volume=408, issue=8847, magazine=(The Economist)

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To a high degree, very.

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Used to contradict a negative assertion.

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