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woundily

woundily adverb: excessively; greatly.

Adverb

woundily (comparative more woundily, superlative most woundily)

  1. (obsolete) Excessively; greatly.
    • Taking up the tongs, as if to arrange the wood, but rather perhaps to conceal his own confusion, the butler observed, “it was burning clear now, but had smoked woundily in the morning.”1817 December 31 (indicated as 1818), [Walter Scott], chapter XI, in Rob Roy. […], volume III, Edinburgh: […] James Ballantyne and Co. for Archibald Constable and Co. […]; London: Longman, Hurst...
    • [']Well, at that moment the Frenchman lifted for'ard on a heavy swell, and let drive at us, with all his forecastle guns, fired as it might be with one priming—'" / "That was bad gunnery," growled Tom Sponge, "as it racks a ship woundily."1842, J[ames] F[enimore] Cooper, chapter XXIII, in The Two Admirals. A Tale of the Sea (Collection of British Authors; XV), Tauchnitz edition, Leipzig: Bernhard Tauchnitz, →OCLC, page 341

Forms of woundily

comparativemore woundily
superlativemost woundily

Origin of woundily

From woundy + -ly.

Questions about woundily

What does woundily mean?
Woundily means excessively; greatly.
What part of speech is woundily?
Woundily is an adverb.

Words near woundily in the dictionary

  1. woundeth
  2. woundfin
  3. woundfins
  4. woundfuck
  5. woundfucking
  6. woundily
  7. wounding
  8. woundingly
  9. woundings
  10. woundless
  11. woundlessness

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