Adverb

(en adverb)

In a heavy manner.

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, chapter=5, title= A Cuckoo in the Nest , passage=The departure was not unduly prolonged.

With a great weight.

To a considerable degree, to a great extent.

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*:An indulgent playmate, Grannie would lay aside the long scratchy-looking letter she was writing (heavily crossed ‘to save notepaper’) and enter into the delightful pastime of ‘a chicken from Mr Whiteley's’.

In a manner designed for heavy duty.

*{{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham), title=(The China Governess)

, chapter=14 citation , passage=Nanny Broome was looking up at the outer wall.  Just under the ceiling there were three lunette windows, heavily barred and blacked out in the normal way by centuries of grime.}}

So as to be thick or heavy.

In a laboured manner.

Adverb

(en-adv)

In a manner.

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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. And why else was he put away up there out of sight?—and so magnificent a brush as he had too.