thoroughly
[thur-uh-lee, thuhr‐]
- in a thorough manner or degree; completely and carefully: We will review the data thoroughly.
- perfectly; utterly: We thoroughly enjoyed the play.
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Origin of thoroughly
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Contemporary Examples
It is also the first study to thoroughly examine emergency department use for post-abortion care.
Do not move on to the next item on this list until you have thoroughly answered these questions.
Something tells me Holly Golightly would have thoroughly approved.
Its rhetorical potential—if it ever had any—has been thoroughly exhausted.
But when you look at it clearly, saving the law from politics turns out to be a thoroughly political job.
Historical Examples
I know him so thoroughly that I could see things that you girls couldn't.
Grace Harlowe's Return to Overton CampusJessie Graham Flower
That these books have not been thoroughly revised and made to agree.
A Theological-Political Treatise [Part II]Benedict of Spinoza
If fish is to be cooked by steaming, first clean it thoroughly.
Woman's Institute Library of Cookery, Vol. 3Woman's Institute of Domestic Arts and Sciences
Sidney was thoroughly angry by this time, angry and reckless.
KMary Roberts Rinehart
"You 'tend to your own business," cried the thoroughly enraged farmer.
In the Midst of AlarmsRobert Barr