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THICKLY

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 I. (adverb) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

In a concentrated manner

Example:

a thickly populated area

Synonyms:

densely; thickly

Classified under:

Adverbs

Antonym:

thinly (in a widely distributed manner)

Pertainym:

thick (having component parts closely crowded together)

Sense 2

Meaning:

In quick succession

Example:

misfortunes come fast and thick

Synonyms:

thick; thickly

Classified under:

Adverbs

Sense 3

Meaning:

Spoken with poor articulation as if with a thick tongue

Example:

after a few drinks he was beginning to speak thickly

Classified under:

Adverbs

Pertainym:

thick (spoken as if with a thick tongue)

Sense 4

Meaning:

With thickness; in a thick manner

Example:

we were visiting a small, thickly walled and lovely town with straggling outskirt

Classified under:

Adverbs

Antonym:

thinly (in a small quantity or extent)

Pertainym:

thick (not thin; of a specific thickness or of relatively great extent from one surface to the opposite usually in the smallest of the three solid dimensions)

Sense 5

Meaning:

With a thick consistency

Example:

the blood was flowing thick

Synonyms:

thick; thickly

Classified under:

Adverbs

Antonym:

thinly (without viscosity)

Pertainym:

thick (relatively dense in consistency)

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 Context examples: 

By Saint Paul! said Sir Nigel, blinking up at them, I think that we have much to hope for from these cavaliers, for they cluster very thickly upon our flanks.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

It was thickly coated with soot from the passing engines, but the black surface was blurred and rubbed in places.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

So the months followed one another, and first the trees budded in the woods, and soon the green branches grew thickly intertwined, and then the blossoms began to fall.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

Flu infection in mammals starts when an influenza virus protein called hemagglutinin binds to sialic acid (SA) molecules on the tops of chain-like proteins that thickly line tissue throughout the respiratory tract.

(Researchers find role for soft palate in adaptation of transmissible influenza viruses, NIH)

Here and there I strayed through the orchard, gathered up the apples with which the grass round the tree roots was thickly strewn; then I employed myself in dividing the ripe from the unripe; I carried them into the house and put them away in the store-room.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

"Hold on," Joe muttered thickly.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

His face was as impassive as ever, but his lids had drooped more heavily over his eyes, and his smoke had curled up more thickly from his pipe to emphasize each curious episode in the doctor’s tale.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

It was a large room fitted round with glass presses, furnished, among other things, with a cheval-glass and a business table, and looking out upon the court by three dusty windows barred with iron. The fire burned in the grate; a lamp was set lighted on the chimney shelf, for even in the houses the fog began to lie thickly; and there, close up to the warmth, sat Dr. Jekyll, looking deathly sick.

(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

The supper was laid in a large room, with Union Jacks and mottoes hung thickly upon the walls.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

In that direction the country was still thickly wooded, with so much undergrowth that our progress was very slow.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)