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VERY MUCH
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I. (adverb)
Sense 1
Meaning:
To a very great degree or extent
Example:
this would help a great deal
Synonyms:
a good deal; a great deal; a lot; lots; much; very much
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Context examples:
The future of the Great Red Spot is still very much up for debate.
(NASA's Juno Probes the Depths of Jupiter's Great Red Spot, NASA)
She is a widow, and much older than Manoir; but she is very much admired, and a favourite with everybody.
(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)
Your home will be very much on your mind at the new moon on January 24 in Aquarius at four degrees (not an eclipse).
(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)
“It does not tell us very much, does it?” he remarked, as he handed it back to me.
(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
I did very much wonder, in all this time, not to have heard of any express relating to me from our emperor to the court of Blefuscu.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)
He was lying very much as we had left him, only a little higher, and he seemed both weak and excited.
(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
I should like to very much; but no, no, no, it is quite impossible; I dare not.
(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
He’d set his heart very much on comin’ here to-night, but there were reasons why I didn’t wish him to, and so there’s a shadow betwixt us.
(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
“He saw more than I did. And yet, by the holy nails! there was not very much that I did not see either.”
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
I shall be very much surprised if it does not fetch our man.
(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
