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completely

/kəmˈpliːtli/ adverb B1
  1. In a complete manner; thoroughly. · Please completely fill in the box for your answer, using a number “2” pencil.· I will have completely finished my degree by next July, when my thesis has been properly edited.
  2. To the fullest extent or degree; totally. · He is completely mad.
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Often as she had recited in public, she had never before faced such an audience as this, and the sight of it paralyzed her energies completely.
Anne of Green Gables, p. 283 · C1
Where _can_ I have dropped them, I wonder?” Alice guessed in a moment that it was looking for the fan and the pair of white kid gloves, and she very good-naturedly began hunting about for them, but they were nowhere to be seen—everything seemed to have changed since her swim in the pool, and the great hall, with the glass table and the little door, had vanished completely.
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, p. 21 · B2
Sherlock Holmes and I surveyed this curt announcement and the rueful face behind it, until the comical side of the affair so completely overtopped every other consideration that we both burst out into a roar of laughter.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, p. 15 · B2
Matthew was covered with confusion at finding her there at all; and those bangles completely wrecked his wits at one fell swoop.
Anne of Green Gables, p. 189 · C1

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