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.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- 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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I use the phrase copiously now, as a self-check when I'm really annoyed about something, with the hope that my intentions for "blessing" someone might help them in some way, and with the hope that I may be a trendsetter, yet.
The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com Kelley Harrell 2011
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One of the illustrations accompanying the Nahuatl text shows a person bleeding copiously from the nose. 45
Pestilence and Headcolds: Encountering Illness in Colonial Mexico 2008
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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.
Archive 2009-03-01 2009
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The French Open will be shown in the U.S., copiously, on NBC, ESPN2 and the Tennis Channel.
The Short List 2011
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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.
Archive 2009-05-01 Gordon McCabe 2009
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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.
The Dark Side of Innocence Terri Cheney 2011
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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.
Page 2 2009
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The saga of Love Canal, that environmental disaster area and class-action litigation, has also been written about copiously, but for
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