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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Until now, Brazil had only one documented case of mites that parasitize spiders, and that species belonged to a completely different family.
From Science Daily
Intrusive thoughts can be extremely distressing and often focus on topics that feel completely at odds with a person's values or identity.
From BBC
Part of Mississippi is paralyzed in the wake of a winter storm that completely upended the power grid.
It’s completely silent in the tea shop by now, and everyone is looking at us.
From Literature
"We've found molecules that are alike in structure but generated through a completely different chemical pathway in the body," said lead researcher Robert Salomon, the Charles Frederic Mabery Professor of Research in Chemistry.
From Science Daily
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