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SAFELY
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I. (adverb)
Sense 1
Meaning:
With safety; in a safe manner
Example:
we are safely out of there
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Context examples:
Disability Assessment for Dementia (DAD) Prepare or cook a light meal or a snack safely?
(DAD - Safely Prepare or Cook a Light Meal or Snack, NCI Thesaurus)
The lunch looked charming, and as she surveyed it, she sincerely hoped it would taste well, and that the borrowed glass, china, and silver would get safely home again.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
Of one thing I am now satisfied: that all the boxes which arrived at Whitby from Varna in the Demeter were safely deposited in the old chapel at Carfax.
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
Two comets that will safely fly past Earth later this month may have more in common than their intriguingly similar orbits.
(A 'Tail' of Two Comets, NASA)
Roxton, the man who had earned himself the name of the Flail of the Lord through three countries, was not one who could be safely taunted.
(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Disability Assessment for Dementia (DAD) Stay safely at home by himself/herself when needed?
(DAD - Stay Safely at Home When Needed, NCI Thesaurus)
I don’t move until I have seen you safely in the hands of the surgeon, Harrison.
(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
I can safely say that he has never gave me one moment's alarm on that account from the first.
(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)
With the sample stored safely, the spacecraft will speed away from the asteroid on a path back to Earth.
(Evening Launch Catapults OSIRIS-REx Toward Asteroid Encounter, NASA)
Very glad he was to get safely past them, for, with their bristling red beards and their fierce blue eyes, they were uneasy men to bargain with upon a lonely moor.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
