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INDEFINITELY
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I. (adverb)
Sense 1
Meaning:
To an indefinite extent; for an indefinite time
Example:
this could go on indefinitely
Classified under:
Pertainym:
indefinite (vague or not clearly defined or stated)
Context examples:
Postpone indefinitely or annul something that was scheduled.
(Cancel, NCI Thesaurus)
The idea would be to use acoustic enrichment just during the season when small fish arrive on reefs, not indefinitely.
(Loudspeakers used to attract fish back to dying coral reefs, SciDev.Net)
A fluid in the gaseous state having neither independent shape nor volume and being able to expand indefinitely.
(Gas, NCI Thesaurus)
I used to fancy that life was a positive and perpetual entity, and that by consuming a multitude of live things, no matter how low in the scale of creation, one might indefinitely prolong life.
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
The relationship on your mind has been important to you, but you seem to have had reasons not to consider a commitment to the partner in question (or alternatively, you chose to delay a decision indefinitely).
(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)
I observed that the latter always spoke of himself indefinitely, as “a man”, and seldom or never in the first person singular.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
Our dinner had been indefinitely postponed; but it was growing so late, that my aunt had ordered it to be got ready, when she gave a sudden alarm of donkeys, and to my consternation and amazement, I beheld Miss Murdstone, on a side-saddle, ride deliberately over the sacred piece of green, and stop in front of the house, looking about her.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
It might have lasted indefinitely except for the fact that Ella Kaye came on board one night in Boston and a week later Dan Cody inhospitably died.
(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)
