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FURIOUSLY
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I. (adverb)
Sense 1
Meaning:
(of the elements) in a wild and stormy manner
Example:
winds were blowing furiously
Classified under:
Pertainym:
furious ((of the elements) as if showing violent anger)
Sense 2
Meaning:
In an impassioned or very angry manner
Example:
she screamed furiously at her tormentors
Classified under:
Pertainym:
furious (marked by extreme anger)
Sense 3
Meaning:
In a manner marked by extreme or violent energy
Example:
she went peddling furiously up the narrow street
Classified under:
Adverbs
Pertainym:
furious (marked by extreme and violent energy)
Context examples:
Other ape-men in the trees above us hurled down stones and logs of wood, occasionally dropping bodily on to our ranks and fighting furiously until they were felled.
(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
We sat still; my own cigar burnt furiously, but Van Helsing's went cold altogether.
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
He scraped furiously over a rock, bruised across a second, and struck a third with crushing force.
(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)
The clue to this puzzle came from the variation in calculated gas temperatures – they were high when the lava lake was placid, and low when it was bubbling furiously.
(Size matters: if you are a bubble of volcanic gas, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)
Uncle Henry was milking the cows in the barnyard, and Toto had jumped out of her arms and was running toward the barn, barking furiously.
(The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, by L. Frank Baum)
But the fight lasted so long that he had time to cry himself out and to experience a second burst of courage; and the end of the battle found him again clinging to a hind-leg and furiously growling between his teeth.
(White Fang, by Jack London)
We were boarded about the same time by both the pirates, who entered furiously at the head of their men; but finding us all prostrate upon our faces (for so I gave order), they pinioned us with strong ropes, and setting guard upon us, went to search the sloop.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)
As if black holes weren't mysterious enough, astronomers using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope have found an unexpected thin disk of material furiously whirling around a supermassive black hole at the heart of the magnificent spiral galaxy NGC 3147, located 130 million light-years away.
(Hubble Uncovers Black Hole Disk that Shouldn't Exist, NASA)
The passions may rage furiously, like true heathens, as they are; and the desires may imagine all sorts of vain things: but judgment shall still have the last word in every argument, and the casting vote in every decision.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
Well, he wrote so furiously that he broke his pencil, and had, as you observe, to sharpen it again.
(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
