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sharply
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Word definitions for sharply in dictionaries
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
adverb COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES brake sharply/hard (= brake quickly ) ▪ He braked sharply to avoid the dog. contrast sharply/strikingly with sth (= be extremely different from something ) ▪ These results contrast sharply with other medical tests ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
adv. in an aggressive manner; "she was being sharply questioned" [syn: aggressively ] in a well delineated manner; "the new style of Minoan pottery was sharply defined" [syn: crisply ] changing suddenly in direction and degree; "the road twists sharply ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Old English scearplice "acutely, keenly; painfully, severely; attentively, quickly;" see sharp (adj.) + -ly (2). Old English also had adverbial form scearpe "sharply."
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
adv. In a sharp manner; pertaining to precision.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Sharply \Sharp"ly\, adv. In a sharp manner,; keenly; acutely. They are more sharply to be chastised and reformed than the rude Irish. --Spenser. The soldiers were sharply assailed with wants. --Hayward. You contract your eye when you would see sharply. ...
Usage examples of sharply.
Quickly and with the strength of my annoyance did I use the haft portion of the spear to rap sharply at the shin of first Ceralt and then Mehrayn, ending their exchange and sending them back from each other with yelps of pain.
The Wildcats climbed sharply, forming into two sections of CAP and the Dauntlesses fanned out on their assigned search sections.
He led the way out of the lodge, then, turning sharply to his left, he reached the wide quadrangle with the covered passage running right round it, the same which de Batz had traversed two evenings ago when he went to visit Heron.
The blurring became a smear, then where the man had stood there was only a bedraggled crow, cawing sharply as it rose upward, wings thrumming, and was swallowed by darkness.
She inhaled sharply, surprised and yet turned on by his blatant statement.
The fans were stl too, although the weather had changed sharply overnight, the thick muggy air blown away and replaced by one of those clear blue-and-white days that were more spring than summer, so that, like Nadine, she wore a sweater buttoned over her blou ise.
Millions of rustling grass-blades made one murmuring sound, and thousands of wild ducks and geese and herons and cranes and pelicans were talking sharply and brassily in the wind.
Turning and reaching past Cole, Larssen backhanded Brast sharply across the face.
The voice was warm, yet Brek Veronar could not escape the sense of something sharply critical, deadly.
The waiting hands of hireswords are filling with coin in plenty again, as brigandry is so sharply on the rise.
Thoreau cocked one brindled ear cannily and rapped sharply with his tail on the piazza floor, but there was no other answer to the call.
When Tomaltagh addressed some remark to Corra ni Brith that caused her to color, Eoghan spoke sharply.
Normally there would just have been talking and lots of laughing, from groups of people smelling of Brut and hair spray, the girls in sharply ironed blouses.
He turned sharply, and found himself looking into the sweet face of Hortensia Winthrop, wondering how came she there.
Considerably annoyed at his intrusion, I turned upon him rather sharply, when, with a mumbled, growling apology for mistaking the room, he shuffled out again and closed the door.