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SOUNDLY

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 I. (adverb) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Completely and absolutely ('good' is sometimes used informally for 'thoroughly')

Example:

we beat him good

Synonyms:

good; soundly; thoroughly

Classified under:

Adverbs

Domain usage:

colloquialism (a colloquial expression; characteristic of spoken or written communication that seeks to imitate informal speech)

Pertainym:

sound (complete; thorough)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Deeply or completely

Example:

the baby is sleeping soundly

Classified under:

Adverbs

Pertainym:

sound ((of sleep) deep and complete)

Credits

 Context examples: 

The day had been long and arduous, and he slept soundly and comfortably, though he growled and barked and wrestled with bad dreams.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)

Also, he held White Fang's nose down to the slain hens, and at the same time cuffed him soundly.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

Clouds hid the moon, everything was obscure, and I heard only the sound of the boat as its keel cut through the waves; the murmur lulled me, and in a short time I slept soundly.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

The dwarf was soundly whipt, and as a farther punishment, forced to drink up the bowl of cream into which he had thrown me: neither was he ever restored to favour; for soon after the queen bestowed him on a lady of high quality, so that I saw him no more, to my very great satisfaction; for I could not tell to what extremities such a malicious urchin might have carried his resentment.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

He was sleeping soundly, and his heart rose and fell with regular respiration.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

But the prince all the time slept so soundly, that her voice only passed over him, and seemed like the whistling of the wind among the fir-trees.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

Thus was I bluntly dismissed from the poop, only to find Mugridge sleeping soundly from the morphine I had given him.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

At once weary and content, I slept soon and soundly: when I awoke it was broad day.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

The sheets were made of blue cloth, and Dorothy slept soundly in them till morning, with Toto curled up on the blue rug beside her.

(The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, by L. Frank Baum)

Half-stunned by the blow, Buck was knocked backward and the lash laid upon him again and again, while Spitz soundly punished the many times offending Pike.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)