Crossword clues for deeply
deeply
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
deeply
adverb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
actively/deeply/heavily involved (=involved very much)
▪ Mrs. Cummings has been actively involved with the church for years.
be deeply/genuinely/profoundly moved
▪ Russell was deeply moved by what he heard.
bitterly/deeply/strongly resent
▪ She bitterly resented his mother’s influence over him.
bitterly/deeply/terribly disappointed
▪ The girl’s parents were bitterly disappointed at the jury’s verdict.
breathe deeply (=take long slow breaths of air)
▪ She breathed deeply in the cool night air.
deeply affected
▪ We were all deeply affected by her death.
deeply depressed (=very depressed)
▪ I could see that she was deeply depressed.
deeply divided
▪ a deeply divided society
deeply embedded
▪ Feelings of guilt are deeply embedded in her personality.
deeply ingrained
▪ The idea of doing our duty is deeply ingrained in most people.
deeply offended
▪ I knew that Piers would be deeply offended.
deeply offensive
▪ I found her remarks deeply offensive.
deeply religious
▪ a deeply religious person
deeply rooted in
▪ This feeling of rejection is often deeply rooted in childhood.
deeply satisfying
▪ a deeply satisfying feeling
deeply split
▪ The government appears deeply split on this issue.
deeply suspicious
▪ He was deeply suspicious of the legal system.
deeply touched
▪ We were deeply touched by their present.
deeply troubled
▪ They have been deeply troubled by the allegations.
deeply upset
▪ She was deeply upset about the way her father treated her.
deeply
▪ I should have thought more deeply before I agreed.
deeply/bitterly/thoroughly ashamed
▪ Alan was deeply ashamed when he remembered what he’d said.
deeply/greatly
▪ I deeply regretted what had happened.
deeply/strongly/firmly committed
▪ He was deeply committed to his faith.
deeply/utterly/wholly etc repugnant
deeply/very/profoundly moving
▪ Bayman’s book about his illness is deeply moving.
deeply/very/really shocked
▪ We are all deeply shocked by what’s happened.
deeply/visibly distressed
▪ Hannah was deeply distressed by the news.
delves deeply
▪ research that delves deeply into this issue
extremely/deeply/eternally etc grateful
▪ I am extremely grateful for the assistance your staff have provided.
fatally/fundamentally/deeply etc flawed
▪ The research behind this report is seriously flawed.
flushed deeply
▪ Susan flushed deeply and looked away.
highly/deeply sceptical
▪ He is highly sceptical of the reforms.
inhaled deeply (=breathed in a lot of smoke)
▪ Myra lit another cigarette and inhaled deeply .
madly/deeply in love (=very much in love)
▪ I married Dan because I was madly in love.
seriously/deeply worried
▪ Hazel was now seriously worried. Why hadn’t he come back?
seriously/deeply/greatly etc disturbed
sigh heavily/deeply
▪ Frankie stared out of the window and sighed deeply.
sleep soundly/deeply (=in a way that means you are not likely to wake)
▪ Within seconds, Maggie was sleeping soundly.
strongly held/deeply held views (=strong views that someone is unwilling to change)
▪ He is known for his strongly held views on modern art.
terribly/deeply embarrassed (=very embarrassed)
▪ I was deeply embarrassed to see my mother arrive in a very short skirt.
very/deeply hurt
▪ Alice was deeply hurt that she hadn’t been invited.
very/deeply unhappy
▪ The Government was deeply unhappy about criticism from the press.
very/deeply/highly unpopular
▪ This bill is deeply unpopular with the rest of the Republican establishment.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
ashamed
▪ She rebuked herself, feeling deeply ashamed, for having given way earlier to despair and self-pity.
▪ Immediately afterwards I felt deeply ashamed.
▪ All the girls were deeply ashamed.
▪ She dropped her eyes to the tablecloth, suddenly confused and deeply ashamed of herself.
▪ The worry which most perturbed Winnie was one of which she was deeply ashamed.
concerned
▪ They are deeply concerned about the scientists' inability to explain the dramatic changes they see in nature.
▪ We are deeply concerned for the fate of all those thousands of women and men who remain in prison.
▪ Many people are deeply concerned about the neglect of crofting land.
▪ The Government are deeply concerned that they may lose seats south of the border as a result of the community charge.
▪ Yes, I am still deeply concerned with the movement.
▪ The Governors were not simply parsimonious: in truth they continued to be deeply concerned about the financial state of the School.
▪ In this sense it is not surprising that the study of social policy has been deeply concerned with the improvement of policies.
▪ They were deeply concerned about Prince Charles's decision to give up shooting as well as his inclination towards vegetarianism.
grateful
▪ Hank was suddenly deeply grateful to old Mr Albert for taking him seriously.
▪ As he headed home with Dooley at nearly one-thirty in the morning, he felt deeply grateful, but uncommonly fatigued.
▪ It indicated that he didn't know me well - for which I was deeply grateful.
▪ He was deeply grateful to her, and to everyone.
▪ But I was at home and close to my drugs, and I was most deeply grateful for my escape.
▪ I feel deeply grateful that these mountains do not close all round us.
▪ We are deeply grateful for his 40 years of service to Johnson Matthey.
▪ I said he had suffered for his country, and that the President was deeply grateful.
indebted
▪ The blood transfusion brought colour to my face and I am deeply indebted to some anonymous donor.
▪ I am deeply indebted to Henry Rosemont, who gave a great deal of assistance in the final revisions of the manuscript.
ingrained
▪ The continuing problems of Northern Ireland demonstrate the futility of responding to a deeply ingrained political problem with a law-and-order response.
▪ But historically speaking, this reverence for language is deeply ingrained and persistent.
▪ This deeply ingrained suspicion of central government explains the aversion of teachers to any increase of ministerial involvement in curricular matters.
interested
▪ A brilliant linguist, he was also deeply interested in botany, chemistry and other scientific subjects.
▪ Again, the need for the deeply interested reader to supplement a survey with other books becomes evident.
▪ He and Hunt - who had always been deeply interested in driver safety - worked in excellent cooperation.
▪ They had absolutely nothing to do with herself, yet despite this fact she felt deeply interested in them.
▪ All this deeply interested Modigliani who was a remarkably cultivated and educated man, as Paul Alexandre proves.
▪ They are fair and they are deeply interested in education.
▪ I am deeply interested in his theories about horse-breeding.
▪ He stayed for a year and grew deeply interested in Linder's studious attitude towards feminist principles.
offensive
▪ I have found the way I have been treated by qualified and unqualified people patronising and presumptuous and deeply offensive.
▪ To entertain the idea that they are matters which are open to discussion is in fact deeply offensive.
▪ He found it deeply offensive to think of Alice-his beautiful Alice - being rejected by anyone.
religious
▪ In Gulu, a deeply religious town still torn between fear and hope, a handshake has become a sin.
▪ Clarke was a deeply religious man who enjoyed mathematics, music, and domestic life.
▪ One of 11 children, he was born on a Mississippi farm where his deeply religious father disapproved of the blues.
▪ Both were deeply religious, highly intelligent, moralistic southerners who went to the White House as amateurs and outsiders.
▪ He was noted for his prodigious memory, was deeply religious, and a staunch advocate of temperance.
▪ In making this comment, one is merely pointing out particular ideological characteristics in hard-working, deeply religious, and committed people.
▪ Both Digby's parents were deeply religious and almost violently anti-Catholic.
▪ Sorley was deeply religious in the philosophical sense but always remained out of tune with conventional belief.
sceptical
▪ In the past, the medical profession has been deeply sceptical about the value of healing.
▪ Now most of these teams have been disbanded, and many of those involved sound deeply sceptical.
shocked
▪ If a patient is deeply shocked, measurement of peripheral blood pressure may be very low or difficult to record.
▪ His anger had left him and he was merely deeply shocked.
▪ He could not afford to leave money behind, however deeply shocked.
▪ And I was deeply shocked at the unanimous vote that brought it about.
▪ People from Poleglass and Twinbrook, who gathered at the scene of the murder last night, said they were deeply shocked.
▪ But she was astonished, and deeply shocked, that they should have gone off with Guido's speedboat.
▪ He had seen Frank's mutilated back when they had both been down for screening, and had been deeply shocked.
suspicious
▪ David Widgery was deeply immersed in student politics, and deeply suspicious of It.
▪ It's hardly surprising that we should be deeply suspicious of any attempt to deal with a subject as charged as rape.
▪ She's deeply suspicious of the circumstances.
▪ He is deeply suspicious about Western intentions on his continent.
▪ This liberty was short-lived however. parliament, deeply suspicious of the King's intentions, proclaimed his Declaration illegal in February.
▪ His refusal to compromise and his deeply suspicious nature was spoiling the pleasure of actually being part of the group.
unhappy
▪ Her husband was apparently a heavy drinker, and their marriage was deeply unhappy.
▪ And his family is deeply unhappy and divided over political and social issues of the day.
▪ Ian Gilmour and Peter Walker were deeply unhappy.
▪ They are deeply unhappy about the fact that Chirac, as president, enjoys immunity.
▪ Suddenly again it was a deeply unhappy time.
▪ For over two long, deeply unhappy years, it had been a prison.
▪ Charlie was heartbroken: Robert was deeply unhappy.
▪ Clearly, he was surprised and deeply unhappy to see me.
unpopular
▪ A string of sensational stories has made them deeply unpopular.
▪ She did things which were deeply unpopular to a large section of the political community which she was striving to hold together.
▪ What we did not hear was that his objectionable manner made him deeply unpopular with black people in his district.
▪ It has pledged to end the deeply unpopular draft and to reduce the 80,000-strong army.
▪ The war is deeply unpopular, but Mugabe remains firmly committed to it.
▪ The first assessment was made in 1662, but the tax proved deeply unpopular and was finally abolished in 1689.
▪ Even water privatisation, which every opinion poll showed to be a deeply unpopular measure, was almost six times over-subscribed.
▪ The episcopalians, by contrast, strongly opposed the Union, which proved to be deeply unpopular.
■ VERB
affect
▪ No way at all that a few hundred words are going to do justice to this deeply affecting novel.
▪ They are more deeply affected than most citizens because they know more about what goes on inside government than most citizens.
▪ The rest of us have precious little influence over the global economy, though our lives are deeply affected by it.
▪ Each aspect of their life deeply affects the other.
▪ Clearly, developments of this sort deeply affect credit use.
▪ Global warming will deeply affect poor countries, leading to huge numbers of refugees, crop failures, and extreme weather.
▪ The death of the child deeply affected both of them.
▪ Brian Simpson was also deeply affected by the incident - he committed suicide the following year.
become
▪ The incident has become deeply embarrassing for the Bush administration, precisely because of its caution.
▪ We become deeply aroused by the featherbedding union.
▪ But after critics savaged his second symphony, Elgar became deeply depressed and never wrote another major work.
▪ All this pressure became deeply internalized.
▪ Consequently, while corporate structures have developed apace since reorganization, it is questionable whether the corporate ethos has become deeply rooted.
▪ Alternatively, judges might become deeply involved in determining budget policy, including whether Social Security or Medicare checks should be stopped.
▪ Should they become deeply involved in the community, and risk losing the detachment needed in such work?
▪ The politics of the issue have become deeply entwined in the process of wrapping up annual appropriations bills.
breathe
▪ Exhorting him to breathe deeply they paraded him up and down beside the wire fence.
▪ Better yet, you can breathe deeply and not choke on secondhand smoke.
▪ She sat for a while, becoming quieter, breathing deeply, ceasing to tremble.
▪ I leaned over and breathed deeply.
▪ He stood still for a moment breathing deeply.
▪ I breathe deeply and rhythmically, seeking Buddhist calm.
▪ Keep it clear. Breathe deeply.
▪ We both rested, breathing deeply.
care
▪ Billie could see their closeness when Adam let her out, saw that they cared deeply for each other.
▪ We care deeply about u hat governments do, but this is a book about how they work.
▪ I care deeply about the comedy in the movie, that it's well-executed and fresh.
▪ He cared deeply about his beloved state of Massachusetts and about our country and its future.
▪ Yes, she had really cared deeply.
▪ He cared deeply for the human condition.
▪ It hurt her to think that Fernando cared deeply enough for another woman to do it.
▪ The marriage was a good one and Brenda and her husband clearly cared deeply about each other.
commit
▪ Throughout the book, it is obvious that Petrey is deeply committed to Austin's way of thinking.
▪ Mohan Singh ji, a union boss, incorruptible and deeply committed to political reform.
▪ Farmers in the region are deeply committed to their livelihoods, stock and crops.
▪ He was a deeply committed man, faithful to his convictions at enormous personal risk.
▪ Most of them are deeply committed to their children.
▪ Among the candidates, Buchanan has the most deeply committed supporters, the poll said.
▪ Helen and my children are also deeply committed to the Amway Corporation and its two million independent distributors worldwide.
concern
▪ I am deeply concerned, both for them and for my country.
▪ In the developed world, most nations professed themselves deeply concerned about low fertility rates.
▪ She was also deeply concerned for the spiritual needs of her relatives and household servants.
▪ Throughout his presidency, Roosevelt was always deeply concerned with religious opinion.
▪ I was deeply concerned, naturally, by these developments.
▪ Both the males and females are deeply concerned with child-rearing.
cut
▪ The industrial age cut its own swathe across the island, and deeply cut marble and copper quarries scar many hillsides.
▪ Shipping costs can cut deeply into the discounts offered by online retailers.
▪ It leaned over the track which disappeared in the deep shade below its deeply cut dark green leaves.
▪ The metal supports of the seat in front had cut deeply into his legs, revealing his shattered shin-bones.
▪ Lower prices, while good for consumers, cut deeply into the earnings of the computer stores.
▪ Fjords Where the valleys are deeply cut into rock, the invading seas have produced the fjords.
▪ The ground was deeply cut up where Dersingham's cattle had been wont to stray.
delve
▪ We delve deeply into the psyche for memories of past experience and sensation to judge any work of art.
▪ The movie delves deeply into the issues of violence and its consequences.
▪ That leaves the weapons connection, but it is inappropriate for the Sizewell inquiry to delve deeply into this issue.
▪ Researchers, too, can sometimes be carried away in delving deeply into some issue in the minutest detail.
disappoint
▪ He was deeply disappointed when he peered over the bank.
distress
▪ It is deeply distressing to have to come to that conclusion.
▪ None the less, enough boys are surviving school with their masculinity intact to deeply distress the liberationists.
disturb
▪ For the landed nobility, the impact of Emancipation was deeply disturbing.
▪ I was deeply disturbed at this.
▪ Einstein was deeply disturbed by the implications of this collapse, and he refused to believe that it happened.
▪ I was deeply disturbed by this and quite convinced that it would lead to serious trouble.
▪ These out-of-position stars indicate that something has deeply disturbed the way things were in the galaxy.
▪ Had they been deeply disturbed from birth?
divide
▪ It has deeply divided mid-green leaves that flare to wild, improbable scarlet.
▪ Still, the report and public hearing made plain that the subcommittee had been deeply divided over key points.
▪ Cancer experts are deeply divided amongst themselves about the percentage of cancers that can be attributed to environmental factors.
▪ The city had strong Southern leanings and politically was deeply divided.
▪ The justices are deeply divided on such issues as abortion, affirmative action and the separation of church and state.
drink
▪ He was merry, drank deeply and said he was off to Kinghorn.
▪ They are drinking deeply from the flasks they always carry with them: apple whiskey.
▪ As Chuck followed Devraux into the trees he hung back, pulled out his flask again and drank deeply from it.
▪ Converse drank deeply of his martini.
embed
▪ What research has shown is that these tendencies to behave in certain ways are deeply embedded in past experiences.
▪ This denial is deeply embedded in politics.
▪ Had her dream hero been so deeply embedded in her heart that her mind had never stopped believing in him?
▪ Our roots are deeply embedded in polluted soil.
▪ For no work of art which is deeply embedded in the imagination can ever be still or dead.
▪ Nevertheless, live animal experimentation is deeply embedded in the culture of contemporary biomedical science.
entrench
▪ Both are probably deeply entrenched in our culture.
▪ Today the bucolic beauty of the region hides a deeply entrenched and long-standing poverty.
▪ This notion is a deeply entrenched article of faith.
▪ Most are parroting a deeply entrenched view which they have not critically or creatively examined.
▪ Although encircled, they are none the less deeply entrenched.
feel
▪ Why should it be silly to feel deeply? 4.
▪ As he headed home with Dooley at nearly one-thirty in the morning, he felt deeply grateful, but uncommonly fatigued.
▪ Everyone at the front of the procession was now feeling deeply uncertain.
▪ Patrick must serve as a symbol of two deeply felt traditions embraced by the island.
▪ She rebuked herself, feeling deeply ashamed, for having given way earlier to despair and self-pity.
▪ They had absolutely nothing to do with herself, yet despite this fact she felt deeply interested in them.
hold
▪ Pupils of all ages and abilities have deeply held opinions about the way things actually are, about reality, about truth.
▪ We are of the deeply held belief that many human beings have come to behave as materialistic tyrants.
▪ The text of the Botanical Cabinet, combining scientific information with pious observations, reflected Loddiges's deeply held religious convictions.
▪ It felt like a repudiation of their most deeply held ideals.
hurt
▪ A source close to the player last night made it clear that he was deeply hurt at being dropped from the match.
▪ As a result some Volunteers were later surprised and deeply hurt.
▪ She was deeply hurt that Gabriel no longer loved her.
▪ They feel betrayed by the Church, they are deeply hurt and often openly claim to have lost their faith.
▪ There are people here who love Pat and who will be deeply hurt and upset by this brutal interference.
▪ But the one most deeply hurt was Rosie herself.
▪ Therefore when Jack's attitude and manner began to grow colder she was deeply hurt.
impress
▪ Throughout his life he was deeply impressed by writers and scholars.
▪ The simple fact that his motorcade stops at red traffic lights has deeply impressed Ankara residents.
▪ I had been deeply impressed by a number of experiences in my life.
influence
▪ It is something that has deeply influenced all social life.
▪ This self-sufficiency in the face of tragedy must have deeply influenced Agnes, who was seven when her father died.
▪ Both societies are deeply influenced by their history and by their perception of that history.
▪ The political orientations of most individuals are deeply influenced by behaviors and beliefs experienced in the family environment.
▪ His writings deeply influenced many later mathematicians and scientists, most notably Galileo and Newton.
inhale
▪ She turned back towards him, leant against the stove and inhaled deeply.
▪ Bethany inhaled deeply and made the embers glow.
▪ She lay back on the ground and inhaled deeply.
▪ Lighting the cigarette, she inhaled deeply, drawing in a suction of relief.
▪ Urquhart inhaled deeply and flexed his firm jaw.
▪ She inhaled deeply, her face a little shocked.
▪ She inhaled deeply and threw her head back to blow the smoke towards the ceiling.
▪ They inhale deeply, as if their very lives depended on that one breath.
involve
▪ They were deeply involved in the welfare of their families - apprehensive that something might go wrong.
▪ Carol had been deeply involved with her work there and had loved it.
▪ The multinationals that stand to benefit were deeply involved in the negotiations to establish Gats.
▪ They tell us about how they gradually adjusted as they became more deeply involved in the classroom and extracurricular experiences.
▪ She comes from the classical tradition but is deeply involved with improvisation and had played with Bailey on several previous occasions.
▪ I was deeply involved in other things.
▪ Her work is deeply involved with landscape and shows an insight that is also seen in her portraiture.
▪ She is deeply involved in litigation and negotiations in which the potential stakes for city residents are massive.
move
▪ Literally, it is merely a bride's song of farewell, full of pathos and tenderness and deeply moving.
▪ The portraits she paints are deeply moving and sympathetic.
▪ Sutton had been deeply moved by this compliment.
▪ Stewart was deeply moved to be back in the compelling presence of his big brother after five years.
▪ And the visitor's interest is kept alive by the deeply moving beauty of novel forms.
▪ Blue is deeply moved by this.
▪ But as a novel that attempts to fathom our recent times, it is always thought-provoking and ultimately deeply moving.
▪ Ceyx was deeply moved, for she loved him no better than he loved her, but his purpose held fast.
offend
▪ Some people may find rude jokes funny but others may be deeply offended.
▪ Criticized to his very marrow, I knew that Pierluigi would be deeply offended.
▪ Yet, if I did so, he was deeply offended.
regret
▪ I deeply regret that I was unable to have a word with the housekeeper when she was more collected in mind.
▪ It read: The Governor deeply regrets you were inconvenienced by Mr Dach, a member of his advance team.
▪ But when this was over, Eleanor would deeply regret that she had tried to interfere with his personal life.
▪ He communicates less and less with his wife, who now deeply regrets the entire affair.
▪ We deeply regret the death of this noble person.
remain
▪ Psycho and Peeping Tom, both of which are more than 30 years-old and remain deeply shocking, are also ignored.
▪ She remains deeply troubled by separatist movements.
▪ But the Government remains deeply concerned about low police moral and the fact that detection rates for all crime is falling.
▪ Brought up in a Nonconformist household, he remained deeply religious.
▪ This art remained deeply rooted in the nineteenth century.
resent
▪ Muhammad Reza deeply resented the way in which his country was once again being governed by its old enemies.
▪ The mortgage traders deeply resented the corporate and government traders.
▪ Many solicitors deeply resent the treatment they feel they have received over their remuneration.
▪ Quite frankly I deeply resent you implying that I would be involved with a thug like that.
▪ There was also a stage where I deeply resented the foetus, although now I think I have killed this feeling.
root
▪ But on the other hand, this respectable ideology was deeply rooted in the general experience of working-class life.
▪ Behind those balconies, behind those curtains, deeply rooted families survived, and neither wars nor occupations could budge them.
▪ This is based on enumerative classification, which is deeply rooted in the traditions of epidemiology and vital statistics.
▪ Had some deeply rooted shame kept her from telling me what was really going on?
▪ Young Bruce My background couldn't really have been more deeply rooted in the whims and cultures of tight-knit Devon and Cornwall.
▪ Tonight, she brings her deeply rooted Southwestern style to Tucson.
▪ The idea of centre is deeply rooted in the human mind.
▪ Its vigour and vitality attest to a popular piety deeply rooted in the everyday life of the local community.
saddened
▪ Adnauseam I was deeply saddened by the Jason saga, but unfortunately I was upset by other aspects of your May issue.
▪ But you must know how deeply saddened I am.
▪ Stirling naturally realized that Lewes would be difficult to replace, and was deeply saddened by his death.
▪ As a young gay man, I was deeply saddened by Jason's actions.
shock
▪ Management at the hostel say they're deeply shocked by his murder.
▪ Richard Baxter was deeply shocked by this tragedy and also by the general prejudice aroused against him by this incident.
▪ The Cyrenians said today they were still deeply shocked by the incident.
▪ Union representative Peter Garner-Gray said last night that scientists at the complex were deeply shocked by the move.
▪ Staff and pupils at Ballykelly Primary School have been deeply shocked by the news of Kieran's death.
▪ The whole staff are deeply shocked by what's happened.
sigh
▪ She threw herself into his arms, sighing deeply when he half-heartedly returned her embrace.
▪ He sighed deeply, stepping up to the white line.
▪ Father O'Harte, easing his little white collar, for it was a hot day, sighed deeply.
▪ Kissinger would sigh deeply, then take it up once again.
▪ He sighed deeply then mounted the stairs and looked around him slowly.
▪ Oliver sighed deeply, stuffed his treasure back into his pockets and sat down on the grass to watch.
▪ In this he carefully laid Tess, and kissing her lips, sighed deeply and happily.
▪ Eventually he sighed deeply, pushed himself to his feet and with a wan smile departed.
sleep
▪ She felt numb and tired and surprised herself by managing to sleep deeply and well.
▪ He slept deeply and when he awoke he was refreshed.
▪ Lily at his side was sleeping deeply, breathing softly.
▪ Now and again he would reach a hand over to the boy but he slept deeply through the night.
▪ He slept deeply until around 9.30, when he arose, breakfasted, and took his children out for a walk.
▪ After three doses, she slept deeply, waking intermittently during the night only to urinate.
▪ One man slept deeply, the other lightly and Aicha not at all.
▪ Stephen settled on his back and slept deeply.
touch
▪ We were deeply touched to receive your love-gift sent with Ann Grant.
▪ But he was also deeply touched that Mel was supplying him with attorneys.
▪ It was the only present any of them was likely to receive and she was deeply touched.
▪ Sethe was deeply touched by her sweet name; the remembrance of glittering headstone made her feel especially kindly toward her.
trouble
▪ But its seeming determination to do so is deeply troubling.
▪ This is deeply troubling to many members of the faiths concerned.
▪ Even White House sources said some aides were deeply troubled by the coffee and believe it should not have occurred.
▪ Gabriel tried to slot this into what the new death was all about; she was deeply troubled.
▪ Bill Archer is very worried, deeply troubled that a constitutional crisis may be approaching.
▪ She remains deeply troubled by separatist movements.
▪ Both Abu Nidal and Gandhi were deeply troubled and ultimately mobilized into political action by their personal experiences.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
be (deeply/greatly) indebted to sb
▪ For further information, we are indebted to Vaughan Purvis who was not supposed to be in this festival at all.
▪ I am indebted to my correspondent Mrs D. M. Ross for this compelling tale.
▪ I am deeply indebted to Henry Rosemont, who gave a great deal of assistance in the final revisions of the manuscript.
▪ In contrast, Pollock's student drawings after El Greco are indebted to Cézanne.
▪ Mr Berlusconi is indebted to bankers as well as to politicians.
▪ The blood transfusion brought colour to my face and I am deeply indebted to some anonymous donor.
▪ The Dark Blues were indebted to Jason Pratt, 21, who was named man of the match.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Congress is deeply concerned about unemployment.
▪ I am deeply honored.
▪ I want you to know how deeply grateful I am for everything you've done for me.
▪ It is said that there is an ancient city deeply submerged in this part of the ocean.
▪ Local residents are deeply concerned about the threat to health posed by the power station.
▪ Senator McCain is deeply committed to campaign finance reform.
▪ The ceremony was short but deeply moving.
▪ The daffodil bulbs were planted too deeply.
▪ The road followed the deeply cut river valley.
▪ They found rock with gold in it deeply buried beneath the earth's surface.
▪ We are all deeply saddened by Bill's sudden death.
▪ Wood is a deeply religious man.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ As vicar of Bidston and deeply involved in the plans, may I correct a few misleading rumours.
▪ Carol had been deeply involved with her work there and had loved it.
▪ He cared deeply for the human condition.
▪ He cuts some other programs deeply.
▪ Judges loved its deeply inspiring red and grey bricks.
▪ The deeply incised DE/ED made with a red-hot nail was visible for anyone to see.
▪ The marines were deeply suntanned and under their green camouflage helmets they looked very much alike.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Deeply
Deeply \Deep"ly\, adv.
At or to a great depth; far below the surface; as, to sink deeply.
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Profoundly; thoroughly; not superficially; in a high degree; intensely; as, deeply skilled in ethics.
He had deeply offended both his nobles and people.
--Bacon.He sighed deeply in his spirit.
--Mark viii. 12. -
Very; with a tendency to darkness of color.
The deeply red juice of buckthorn berries.
--Boyle. Gravely; with low or deep tone; as, a deeply toned instrument.
With profound skill; with art or intricacy; as, a deeply laid plot or intrigue.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
deeply
Old English deoplice (see deep (adj.)), used in both literal and figurative senses.
Wiktionary
deeply
adv. 1 At depth, in a deep way. 2 To a deep extent. 3 profoundly
WordNet
deeply
adv. to a great depth psychologically; "They felt the loss deeply" [syn: profoundly]
to a great depth; "dived deeply"; "dug deep" [syn: deep]
[also: deeper]
Wikipedia
Deeply
Deeply is a 2000 film directed by Sheri Elwood, starring Julia Brendler, Lynn Redgrave and Kirsten Dunst.
Usage examples of "deeply".
He carried out his self-imposed task as keeper of the flag-locker in a naturally elegant manner that was deeply incongruous aboard a privateer, a ship designed solely for war.
As he said the last words my converter rose, and went to the window to dry his tears, I felt deeply moved, anal full of admiration for the virtue of De la Haye and of his pupil, who, to save his soul, had placed himself under the hard necessity of accepting alms.
This question has been disputed With as great zeal, and even acrimony, between the Scotch and Irish antiquaries, as if the honor of their respective countries were the most deeply concerned in the decision.
It is very seldom in the history of political issues, even when partisan feeling is most deeply developed, that so absolute a division is found as was recorded upon the question of adopting the Fourteenth Amendment.
He proved to be a tremendously competent and affable man of about fifty, admirably well-read, and deeply familiar with all the conditions of Australian travel.
Dinger said, full of appreciation, inhaling deeply as if he was on the se afront at Yarmouth.
He, now deeply afrown, stared up at the manner in which she took herself from him, the disgust to be seen upon her face much like a blow delivered him.
The memory of the need in him struck like an arrow, a need deeper than his love for Alde, a wordless yearning so deeply buried he had never sensed its loss in all his aimless life.
Dincrist was the picture of a patrician-sportsman, even taller than Alacrity and very fit, white-haired and deeply tanned.
Ready to spring the final ruse, Alec cast a yearning look toward the keep and sighed deeply.
The weaker candidate solicited the protection of Justinian, and ambitiously subscribed a treaty of alliance, which deeply wounded the independence and happiness of his country.
He was only quite at ease when having poured several glasses of wine mechanically into his large mouth he felt a pleasant warmth in his body, an amiability toward all his fellows, and a readiness to respond superficially to every idea without probing it deeply.
I fear that it will remain the same even when the anesthetic becomes available and the others, too, are deeply unconscious.
The sidewalk was filled with anorectic individuals of ambiguous gender, hugging guitar cases as if they were life preservers, dragging deeply on cigarettes and regarding the passing traffic with spaced-out apprehension.
I was deeply moved, and was about to throw my arms about her neck without answering when the chocolate came.