gradually
/ˈɡɹæd͡ʒuəli/ adverb A2- In a gradual manner; making slow progress; slowly.
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Our visitor's angry face gradually cleared.
This he began to read with a smile of amusement upon his face which gradually faded away into an expression of intense interest and concentration.
In the Academy Anne gradually drew a little circle of friends about her, thoughtful, imaginative, ambitious students like herself.
This loophole, which gradually diminished in size as it approached the outside, to an opening through which a child could not have passed, was, for better security, furnished with three iron bars, so as to quiet all apprehensions even in the mind of the most suspicious jailer as to the possibility of a prisoner’s escape.
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