Adverb

(en adverb)

(manner) In a complete manner; fully; totally; utterly.

* 1851 , (Herman Melville), , Chapter 70,

It should not have been omitted that previous to completely stripping the body of the leviathan, he was beheaded.

* 1899 , (Kate Chopin), , Chapter XIX,

She completely abandoned her Tuesdays at home, and did not return the visits of those who had called upon her.

* 1969 , E.R. Zumwalt, Jr., ,

Lieutenant (junior grade) KERRY immediately maneuvered his craft through several strafing runs which completely silenced the enemy.

(degree) To the fullest extent or degree; totally.

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* 1968 June 8, ,

Our future may lie beyond our vision, but it is not completely beyond our control.

* 1975 , (Helen Schucman), '', Lesson 75: ''The light has come ,

Keep a completely open mind, washed of all past ideas and clean of every concept you have made.

Adverb

(en-adv)

In a widespread or large manner.

For the most part; mainly or chiefly.

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On a large scale; amply.

* 1913 ,

Usually there was a jug of one or other decoction standing on the hob, from which he drank largely .

*:"Grand!" he said, smacking his lips after wormwood. "Grand!" And he exhorted the children to try.

(obsolete) Fully, at great length.

* 1590 , Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene , III.ii:

It ill beseemes a knight of gentle sort, / Such as ye haue him boasted, to beguile / A simple mayd, and worke so haynous tort, / In shame of knighthood, as I largely can report.