Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Abundantly; plentifully; profusely.
  • Largely; fully; amply; diffusely.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adverb In a copious manner.

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  • adverb In a copious manner.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • adverb in an abundant manner

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Examples

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  • One of the illustrations accompanying the Nahuatl text shows a person bleeding copiously from the nose. 45

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  • At the state dinner for over 100 diplomats held at the home of the Japanese Prime Minister Kiichi Miyazawa, the president experienced sudden, violent gastric distress, vomited - as the news reports put it - "copiously" into the lap of Miyazawa and fainted in what was one of the most embarrassing diplomatic incident in the U.S.

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  • When they wheeled him out he was vaguely conscious, twitching slightly less, but bleeding copiously.

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  • The French Open will be shown in the U.S., copiously, on NBC, ESPN2 and the Tennis Channel.

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  • The restaurant is practicing on you, and in exchange for their fumbling you get to eat and drink copiously, for free.

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  • Everett became increasingly unhappy, drinking and smoking copiously until he died of a heart attack in 1982.

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  • Snot ran copiously from my nose, an infuriating tickle, and I automatically wiped it with my right hand, just as Carrie came hurtling down from the toss-up.

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  • And to dilute the poison if possible. (given kilometers away from any medical help) Knelt down at a thawing snow stream and drank copiously.

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