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# repeatedly

«repeatedly» in Mova's school dictionary: **many times, again and again** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

adverb (repeatedly)

### meaning for a pupil

Repeatedly means many times, again and again. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/repeatedly/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

In stories it shows something happening over and over: "The dog barked repeatedly". In maths, multiplication is repeated addition, and division can be repeated subtraction. In instructions: "Stir repeatedly". Similar: again and again, over and over, many times.

### examples

- The phone rang repeatedly. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/repeatedly/#x1)
- He repeatedly forgot his PE kit. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/repeatedly/#x2)
- Multiplying is adding the same number repeatedly. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/repeatedly/#x3)
- She knocked repeatedly, but no one came. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/repeatedly/#x4)
- The teacher repeatedly asked for quiet. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/repeatedly/#x5)
- Press the button repeatedly to wake the robot. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/repeatedly/#x6)
- Subtract 3 repeatedly from 12: 9, 6, 3, 0, so 12 ÷ 3 = 4. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/repeatedly/#x7)
- The bird hit the window repeatedly. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/repeatedly/#x8)
- It would be impossible to describe his joy; he kissed the talisman repeatedly, wrapped it up, and carefully tied it round his arm. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/repeatedly/#x9)

### note

Repeated + ly. Spelling: r-e-p-e-a-t-e-d-l-y. A bit formal; everyday: over and over. In maths "added repeatedly" points to multiplication and "taken away repeatedly" to division.

### In the corpora

- [Character thinking says we become what we repeatedly do.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/37-rules-consequences-character/11/)

### Trees and pragmatics

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