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DAY BY DAY
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I. (adverb)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Gradually and progressively
Example:
his health weakened day by day
Synonyms:
daily; day by day
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Context examples:
The table was flanked on one side by a gaudy bureau, manufactured for profit and not for service, the thin veneer of which was shed day by day.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
The deep remembrance of the sense I had, of being utterly without hope now; of the shame I felt in my position; of the misery it was to my young heart to believe that day by day what I had learned, and thought, and delighted in, and raised my fancy and my emulation up by, would pass away from me, little by little, never to be brought back any more; cannot be written.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
She detected unguessed finenesses in him that seemed to bud, day by day, like flowers in congenial soil.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
