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# vigorously

«vigorously» in Mova's school dictionary: **With a lot of energy, force or strength** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

adverb (vigorously; more vigorously, most vigorously)

### meaning for a pupil

With a lot of energy, force or strength. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/V/vigorously/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

In science and cooking lessons: stir vigorously, shake vigorously. In PE and health: vigorous exercise makes you out of breath. In debates: argue or deny vigorously. Phrases: shake vigorously, exercise vigorously, nod vigorously.

### examples

- Shake the bottle vigorously before using. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/V/vigorously/#x1)
- Stir the mixture vigorously for a minute. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/V/vigorously/#x2)
- He nodded vigorously when asked if he wanted cake. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/V/vigorously/#x3)
- We exercised vigorously in PE. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/V/vigorously/#x4)
- She vigorously denied breaking the window. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/V/vigorously/#x5)
- The dog wagged its tail vigorously. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/V/vigorously/#x6)
- At the same moment he caught up a hatchet, and hammered away vigorously with the back of it at the awl. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/V/vigorously/#x7)

### note

Adjective vigorous, noun vigour (US vigor). Note: vigour drops the u in vigorous and vigorously in all spellings.

### Trees and pragmatics

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