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# heavily

«heavily» in Mova's school dictionary: **in a heavy way: with great weight or force** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 4 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

adverb (heavily)

### meaning for a pupil

1) Heavily means in a heavy way: with great weight or force. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/heavily/#m1)

2) Heavily means very much, a lot, or to a great degree (it rained heavily, heavily damaged). [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/heavily/#m2)

3) Heavily can mean slowly and with effort, as if tired or sad (she sighed heavily). [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/heavily/#m3)

4) Heavily can also mean deeply and soundly, as when someone sleeps heavily. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/heavily/#m4)

### sense in the lessons

In weather reports, «raining heavily» or «snowing heavily» means a lot. In stories, a character who breathes heavily is tired or scared; one who sits down heavily is tired or sad. In safety: heavily loaded bags and vehicles need care. In maths and science, «depends heavily on» means depends a lot. Phrases: rain heavily, breathe heavily, heavily armed, heavily damaged, rely heavily on.

### examples

- It rained heavily all afternoon, so we stayed inside. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/heavily/#x1)
- He was breathing heavily after running up the hill. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/heavily/#x2)
- The truck was heavily loaded with logs. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/heavily/#x3)
- She sat down heavily on the sofa. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/heavily/#x4)
- The town was heavily damaged by the storm. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/heavily/#x5)
- The team relies heavily on its goalie. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/heavily/#x6)
- Snow fell heavily during the night. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/heavily/#x7)
- After that it dropped on the ground and slept heavily. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/heavily/#x8)

### note

Adverb from «heavy»: y becomes i + -ly. Pronounce HEV-i-lee. Do not confuse with «hardly» (almost not).

### In the corpora

- ["Heavyset" is an American way to say fat or heavily built.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/10-weight-and-babies/13/)
- [Some borders are marked by walls and fences, such as the heavily guarded border between North and South Korea.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/31-borders-why-they-are-where-they-are/17/)
- [In later life Solomon turned to other gods and taxed his people heavily.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/9-king-david-and-king-solomon/13/)
- [Callisto is the most heavily cratered object in the Solar System, with a very old surface hardly changed for about 4 billion years.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/space/11-jupiters-moons/13/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «heavily» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/heavily/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.