Crossword clues for furiously
furiously
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Furious \Fu"ri*ous\, a. [L. furiosus, fr. furia rage, fury: cf. F. furieux. See Fury.]
Transported with passion or fury; raging; violent; as, a furious animal.
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Rushing with impetuosity; moving with violence; as, a furious stream; a furious wind or storm.
Syn: Impetuous; vehement; boisterous; fierce; turbulent; tumultuous; angry; mad; frantic; frenzied. -- Fu"ri*ous*ly, adv. -- Fu"ri*ous*ness, n.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Wiktionary
adv. 1 in a furious manner; angrily. 2 quickly; frantically; with great effort or speed.
WordNet
adv. (of the elements) in a wild and stormy manner; "winds were blowing furiously"
in a manner marked by extreme or violent energy; "the boys fought furiously"; "she went peddling furiously up the narrow street"
in an impassioned or very angry manner; "she screamed furiously at her tormentors"
Usage examples of "furiously".
I paused to take in the multicolored tapestry of melted and rehardened minerals, still furiously aboil to the untutored eye.
Cable television has grown so fast and so furiously that it is now a staple in the marketing and advertising plans for both local and national advertisers.
They gasped at the sight of the afanc, thrashing furiously now in the lake with its great neck bending to and fro.
It was sheer blind reflex, speech centres in the brain spewing an analogue of what she was pumping out at transmission levels, like a man gesturing furiously on an audio- phone link.
The underling officers still upon their feet, whose false theories had led Bering into all this disaster, were now quarrelling furiously among themselves, blaming one another.
Puddleduck looked around and around the room, nodding furiously and muttering constant instructions to himself lest he forget, but there was nothing ready at hand to bling the creature with.
Bininski came to where Branicki was lying, and seeing his wound rode off furiously on horseback, swearing to strike me dead wherever he found me.
Scroll-wise coiled forwards beneath the body, and then rapidly sprung backwards, it is this which gives that singular darting, leaping motion to the monster when furiously swimming.
When they were in the boat, they rowed furiously toward the shore, and Nicholas watched with concern as they entered the combers, then shot the breakers to the beach.
We still were fighting furiously as we talked in broken sentences, punctured with vicious cuts and thrusts at our swarming enemy.
Brown locked the gate, went sulkily into the lodge, lighted his cutty pipe, and smoked it furiously.
Mouthing furiously, Gomes confronted them with his gun, calling them fools and traitors who had sold out to the defeatists at the coast.
Ratcliffe had some connexion with the queue murder, and Miss Dinmont was being given furiously to think.
During the warm times, dolomite was laid down under an atmosphere rich in CO2 while photosynthesizers grew furiously.
Uncle Vernon furiously, but Dumbledore raised his ringer for silence, a silence which fell as though he had struck Uncle Vernon dumb.