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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
sorely
adverb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
sorely missed
▪ John will be sorely missed by his family and friends.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ VERB
lack
▪ An admirable state of mind that is sorely lacking these days.
miss
▪ I am sure I am only one of many who will sorely miss this happy-go-lucky golfer.
▪ But he will be sorely missed.
▪ Jimmy Phillips has been sorely missed through suspension and will make a welcome return at left back.
▪ And though no one had said so, the traveling senior warden had not been sorely missed.
▪ Mrs Collingwood will be sorely missed at Penwortham C.P.
▪ Conference watchers say his barnstorming oratory's been sorely missed.
▪ As such a symbol, it will be sorely missed.
need
▪ Crawford says Blue Heron officials insist a soundstage is sorely needed to boost film revenues here.
▪ The ability to leverage private capital has also come to be increasingly expressed in defense of sorely needed downtown redevelopment activity.
▪ The auction promotes openness and honesty, sorely needed in the process.
▪ The Naval Air Corps was then in its infancy and sorely needed a strong leader and champion.
▪ I exhort you to do the monitoring you so sorely need, and hang in there.
tempt
▪ Alyssia refused to give in to any urge to stare at Piers, though she was sorely tempted.
▪ I was sorely tempted to show him the way to the phone booth, but I am not a vindictive man.
test
▪ There were times when my temper was sorely tested.
▪ That vow was sorely tested during the tour.
▪ The combination of his views and his casual approach to politics sorely tested some Conservative activists in Aldershot.
▪ In the process his patience was sorely tested.
▪ No doubt it will sorely test the liberal and progressive credentials of certain members.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ But if he thought that he could goad a reaction out of her then he was sorely mistaken.
▪ Her brief, elliptical poems, most written in the 1850s and 1860s, sorely discomfited some but greatly delighted others.
▪ It sounded like one of a series of novels for young girls that was now sorely out of date.
▪ The ability to leverage private capital has also come to be increasingly expressed in defense of sorely needed downtown redevelopment activity.
▪ The Captain of the Diefrnbaker was sorely tried.
▪ There were times when my temper was sorely tested.
▪ Two hours is ample time, but walkers with interests in botany, geology or archaeology will be sorely tempted to linger.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Sorely

Sorely \Sore"ly\, adv. In a sore manner; grievously; painfully; as, to be sorely afflicted.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
sorely

Old English sarlice "grievously, mournfully, bitterly, painfully;" see sore (adj.) + -ly (2).

Wiktionary
sorely

adv. In a sore or desperate manner.

WordNet
sorely
  1. adv. to a great degree; "I missed him sorely"; "we were sorely taxed to keep up with them"

  2. in or as if in pain; "she moved painfully forward"; "sorely wounded" [syn: painfully] [ant: painlessly]

Usage examples of "sorely".

Now this cheaping irked Ralph sorely, as was like to be, whereas, as hath been told, he came from a land where were no thralls, none but vavassors and good yeomen: yet he abode till all was done, hansel paid, and the thralls led off by their new masters.

But, in this respect, the Hallichek Ambassadress and her Embassy staff were sorely hampered.

The acrobat was sorely bedeviled by the skeleton rider, for that traitor from the past was swatting at Erejzan, trying to slay him with a bloodstained sword.

In fact they are often sorely needed under such circumstances to assist in digesting a meal that may have been eaten some hours previously.

His excitement and impatience were getting the better of him, too, and he was sorely tempted to aid Doli in squeezing Gwystyl.

I was sorely tempted to plant Jack a facer on seeing him take you up in his arms.

I was sorely embarrassed, but my relief that he was not Fust more than consoled me.

The worthy syndic had an engagement on the following day, and I sorely needed a holiday myself.

Marlowe, with his nervous system jangling, was sorely tempted to remove it with a blast of self-propelled 10mms.

Petyr said that Prince Lewyn had been sorely wounded by the time the tide of battle swept him to his final dance with Lady Forlorn, but added.

A sorely garbled comment, closely resembling an oath, sufficed as a promise of compliance.

In such wise that eleven stout sworders of Witchland were slain by him, and fifteen besides were sorely wounded.

He was sorely tempted to do so, but he knew perfectly well how Claudia would react to his unheralded arrival at that time of night.

He has less than half the number of warriors, though we have been sorely wounded by the tsunami slaying some of our best samurai.

The land had belonged to Melwas, the client King of the Belgae whom Arthur had sent in punishment to Isca, and it was land we sorely missed for its loss brought Cerdic very close to the rich estates about Durnovaria and also meant that his ships were just minutes away from Ynys Wit, the great island that the Romans had called Vectis and which lay just off our coast.