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robustly

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ro·bust  (r-bst, rbst)
adj.
1. Full of health and strength; vigorous.
2. Powerfully built; sturdy. See Synonyms at healthy.
3. Requiring or suited to physical strength or endurance: robust labor.
4. Rough or crude; boisterous: a robust tale.
5. Marked by richness and fullness; full-bodied: a robust wine.

[Latin rbustus, from rbur, rbus, oak, strength; see reudh- in Indo-European roots.]

ro·bustly adv.
ro·bustness n.
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Adv.1.robustly - in a robust manner; "he was robustly built"
Translations
robustly [rəʊˈbʌstlɪ] ADV
1. (= solidly) to be robustly built [person] → ser de constitución robusta or fuerte
to be robustly built or made [thing] → estar sólidamente construido
2. (= vigorously) [oppose, attack, defend] → enérgicamente, vigorosamente
3. (= strongly) a robustly flavoured red wineun vino tinto con un sabor fuerte
robustly
adv
(= strongly, solidly)robust
(= determinedly)energisch
flavouredkräftig, herzhaft


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It was too early for the crowd, but bricklayers and their families, laden with huge lunch-baskets and armfuls of babies, were already going in--a healthy, husky race of workmen, well-paid and robustly fed.
There, too, the trooper is a frequent visitor, filling the doorway with his athletic figure and, from his superfluity of life and strength, seeming to shed down temporary vigour upon Jo, who never fails to speak more robustly in answer to his cheerful words.
There was that hint of unhealth about him that Daylight invariably sensed in his presence, while Dede, on the contrary, seemed always so robustly wholesome, radiating an atmosphere compounded of the sun and wind and dust of the open road.
 
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