sorely
/ˈsɔɹli/ adverb C1- In a sore or desperate manner.
- Very, extremely.
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His fur was much thicker than Bagheera’s, but he had suffered sorely in the fight.
Her imagination had been sorely missed in games, her voice in the singing and her dramatic ability in the perusal aloud of books at dinner hour.
A WOLF, sorely wounded and bitten by dogs, lay sick and maimed in his lair.
It was the time of the wheat harvest; but the Farmer reaped nothing that year and returned home grieving sorely.
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