dearly

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/ˈdɪɹli/

adv 3

Collocations

ADJ.

beloved, loved, loved, other

VERB + DEARLY

convinced, cost, love, loves, paid, purchased

DEARLY + NOUN

everybody, item, parents, school, sister

PREP.

after

ADV.

certainly

Definitions

adv

In a dear or precious manner.

the funeral of our dearly beloved sister

In a dear or expensive manner.

a dearly priced item

At great expense; dear.

He paid dearly for his mistake.

But I take solace in the fact that the public has seen the enormous mountain of evidence proving what Fox did, and Fox paid dearly for it.

Thesaurus

Synonyms

adverb — at a great cost

dear

adverb — with affection

affectionately
dear

Antonyms

Idioms & Phrases

sell one's life dearly

To do great injury to the enemy before being killed by them.

sell dearly

To make one's opponent pay a very high price to defeat or obtain (a person, unit, vehicle, or territory).

Realizing he is now boxed in on all sides, Hipper decides the only remaining card he has to play is to sell his ships as dearly as possible. The remaining German ships make a hard

Example Bank

the funeral of our dearly beloved sister

Wiktionary

a dearly priced item

Wiktionary

He paid dearly for his mistake.

Wiktionary

The victory was dearly won.

Tatoeba · #46570

Mr Wood loved Linda dearly.

Tatoeba · #65480

Experience, when it is dearly bought, is never discarded.

Tatoeba · #237978

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