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RAPIDLY

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (adverb) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

With speed

Example:

John got ready in short order

Synonyms:

apace; chop-chop; in short order; quickly; rapidly; speedily

Classified under:

Adverbs

Pertainym:

rapid (done or occurring in a brief period of time)

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 Context examples: 

“Oh, no! I object, you know,” which he said very rapidly, and went out.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

All this I saw, and my brain now working rapidly, I thought a thousand thoughts; and yet I could not pull the triggers.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

Just about the same time, the sun had gone down behind the Spy-glass, and as the fog was collecting rapidly, it began to grow dark in earnest.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

So he bolted his breakfast, a sickly, sloppy affair, as rapidly as they, and heaved a sigh of relief when he passed out through the kitchen door.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

Upon administration, the PEI moiety enhances the entry of the agent into rapidly dividing cells.

(BC-819 Plasmid/Polyethylenimine Complex, NCI Thesaurus)

These receptors provide rapid responses to a variety of stimuli, and are often rapidly attenuated in their signaling.

(Attenuation of GPCR Signaling Pathway, NCI Thesaurus/BIOCARTA)

A rapidly growing malignant mesenchymal neoplasm.

(Alveolar rhabdomyosarcoma, NCI Thesaurus)

A mass of rapidly growing cells that begins in embryonic (fetal) tissue.

(Blastoma, NCI Dictionary)

Bleomycin damages DNA and may kill rapidly growing cancer cells.

(Bleomycin, NCI Dictionary)

Celgosivir rapidly converts to castanospermine in the body, where it is a potent inhibitor of alpha-glucosidase I, a host enzyme required for viral assembly, release, and infectivity.

(Celgosivir, NCI Thesaurus)