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pouncingly

pouncingly adverb: in a pouncing manner; with a pouncing motion.

Adverb

pouncingly (comparative more pouncingly, superlative most pouncingly)

  1. In a pouncing manner; with a pouncing motion.
    • The Bat—they called him the Bat. Like a bat he chose the night hours for his work of rapine; like a bat he struck and vanished, pouncingly, noiselessly; like a bat he never showed himself to the face of the day.1920, Mary Roberts Rinehart, Avery Hopwood, chapter I, in The Bat: A Novel from the Play (Dell Book; 241), New York, N.Y.: Dell Publishing Company, →OCLC, page 01

Forms of pouncingly

comparativemore pouncingly
superlativemost pouncingly

Origin of pouncingly

From pouncing + -ly.

Questions about pouncingly

What does pouncingly mean?
Pouncingly means in a pouncing manner; with a pouncing motion.
What part of speech is pouncingly?
Pouncingly is an adverb.

Words near pouncingly in the dictionary

  1. pouncets
  2. pouncewort
  3. Pouncey
  4. Pounceys
  5. pouncing
  6. pouncingly
  7. pouncings
  8. pouncy
  9. Pouncys
  10. pound
  11. pound a beat

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