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crashingly

crashingly adverb: while crashing, or as if crashing.

Adverb

crashingly (comparative more crashingly, superlative most crashingly)

  1. While crashing, or as if crashing
    • He stumbled crashingly around the apartment.
  2. Absolutely; terribly
    • It is almost 50 years since Western dancers first tried to cure the Russians of this crashingly vulgar habit.2009 January 15, Alastair Macaulay, “Tilting at Windmills, but Not at Traditions, in Performance From Maryinsky”, in New York Times

Forms of crashingly

comparativemore crashingly
superlativemost crashingly

Origin of crashingly

From crashing + -ly.

Questions about crashingly

What does crashingly mean?
Crashingly means while crashing, or as if crashing.
What part of speech is crashingly?
Crashingly is an adverb.

Words near crashingly in the dictionary

  1. crashing bore
  2. crashing bores
  3. crashing in
  4. crashing out
  5. crashing to desktop
  6. crashingly
  7. crashings
  8. crashland
  9. crashlanded
  10. crashlanding
  11. crashlands

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