fully
Americanadverb
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entirely or wholly.
You should be fully done with the work by now.
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quite or at least.
Fully half the class attended the ceremony.
adverb
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to the greatest degree or extent; totally; entirely
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amply; sufficiently; adequately
they were fully fed
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at least
it was fully an hour before she came
Other Word Forms
- quasi-fully adverb
- unfully adverb
Etymology
Origin of fully
First recorded before 900; Middle English; Old English fullīce; equivalent to full 1 + -ly
Example Sentences
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Tui, which provides package holidays to Cape Verde, said that as the cases were now represented by Irwin Mitchell it was unable to comment further, but it was fully investigating the claims being made.
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For the first month she had a total communication ban, but that was eventually lifted because she fully complied with the prosecution process.
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From just after World War Two until the 1990s, the UK rail system was fully nationalised - with the government owning the rail networks and all of the trains.
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Before, several food vendors would arrive early to claim their corner spots, with customers already lining up before stalls were fully set up.
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Criticism can be levelled at Chelsea for a poor first half in which they were booed off, fully deserved to be two goals down, and raised further questions about the quality of their squad.
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