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horribly

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hor·ri·ble  (hôr-bl, hr-)
adj.
1. Arousing or tending to arouse horror; dreadful: "War is beyond all words horrible" (Winston S. Churchill).
2. Very unpleasant; disagreeable.

[Middle English, from Old French, from Latin horribilis, from horrre, to tremble.]

horri·ble·ness n.
horri·bly adv.

horribly [ˈhɒrɪblɪ]
adv
1. in a horrible manner
2. (intensifier) I'm horribly bored
ThesaurusLegend:  Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Adv.1.horribly - of a dreadful kind; "there was a dreadfully bloody accident on the road this morning"
Translations
horribly [ˈhɒrɪblɪ] ADV
1. (= dreadfully) [difficult, rich, embarrassed, expensive] → terriblemente, tremendamente
I was horribly drunktenía una borrachera terrible, estaba borrachísimo
I felt horribly embarrassed by the whole thingme sentía terriblemente or tremendamente abochornado por todo aquello
it's all gone horribly wrongtodo ha salido terriblemente mal
2. (= horrifically) [die, injure, scream] → de una forma horrible; [mutilated, disfigured] → horriblemente, espantosamente
they died horriblymurieron de una forma horrible, tuvieron una muerte horrible
men with horribly scarred faceshombres con unas cicatrices horribles en la cara
horribly [ˈhɒrɪbli] adv
[cruel, selfish] → horriblement
to behave horribly → se comporter horriblement mal
(= extremely) [embarrassing, expensive, uncomfortable, drunk] → très
Our plans have gone horribly wrong → Nos projets ont très mal tourné.
[disfigured] → atrocement; [murdered] → sauvagement
horribly
adv
(= in a horrible manner)grauenhaft; murderedauf grauenhafte Art; they died horriblysie starben einen grauenhaften Tod; the man had been horribly injuredder Mann hatte grauenhafte Verletzungen davongetragen
(inf: = dreadfully) drunk, expensive, embarrassedschrecklich (inf), → fürchterlich (inf)
horribly [ˈhɒrɪblɪ] adv (see adj) → in modo orribile or orrendo, tremendamente, spaventosamente
horribly [ˈhɒrɪblɪ] adv (see adj) → in modo orribile or orrendo, tremendamente, spaventosamente


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But Athena sprang quickly from the immortal head and stood before Zeus who holds the aegis, shaking a sharp spear: great Olympus began to reel horribly at the might of the bright-eyed goddess, and earth round about cried fearfully, and the sea was moved and tossed with dark waves, while foam burst forth suddenly: the bright Son of Hyperion stopped his swift-footed horses a long while, until the maiden Pallas Athene had stripped the heavenly armour from her immortal shoulders.
But I was so horribly alone, and even to clamber down into the darkness of the well appalled me.
She looked so horribly grown up in it that we felt as if she were lost to us already.
 
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