completely
Americanadverb
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to the whole amount or extent; fully.
Although the river never dries up completely, there are times when the water is barely a trickle.
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thoroughly; totally.
I was so completely disoriented by the chiming of Big Ben as I stood below it that I walked into someone with my ice cream.
Great storytelling and successful social media campaigns are completely interconnected.
Other Word Forms
- quasi-completely adverb
- subcompletely adverb
- uncompletely adverb
Etymology
Origin of completely
Example Sentences
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Should United miss out on Europe completely, would the gaping hole in the club's finances allow for a big-name replacement in the summer?
From BBC
But the ongoing blackout has almost completely cut off Iranians from the outside world.
From BBC
“Nvidia is the power-hungry, dirty solution holding the fort until the competition comes in with a completely different approach,” he said.
From MarketWatch
The last company we visited has a completely different angle on how to make the domestic robot a reality.
From BBC
“What makes it work is this feeling that you are off on something completely new,” Farr says.
From Los Angeles Times
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