Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • In a profuse manner; exuberantly; lavishly; prodigally; with rich abundance.

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

  • adverb In a profuse manner.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adverb In great quantity or abundance; in a profuse manner.

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

  • adverb in an abundant manner

Etymologies

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profuse +‎ -ly

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Examples

  • Personaly I just tend to ignore such idiots when I am off duty, SOMETIMES, other times they end up wondering why they are bleeding profusely from the nose, and find something to collar them for when I am ON duty. xxx Ben

    Five Go Camping In Hampshire « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG Inspector Gadget 2009

  • O'Brien was bleeding profusely from the forehead as he left the ice, leaving a trail of deep red blood behind him.

    Vancouver Canucks Team Report 2010

  • A broad stone porch, again profusely studded with large shell reliefs and featuring the double choir window typical of the region, frames the doorway.

    Colonial Lake Pátzcuaro 2007

  • A broad stone porch, again profusely studded with large shell reliefs and featuring the double choir window typical of the region, frames the doorway.

    Colonial Lake Pátzcuaro 2007

  • A broad stone porch, again profusely studded with large shell reliefs and featuring the double choir window typical of the region, frames the doorway.

    Colonial Lake Pátzcuaro 2007

  • So I went on and entered a by street which I had never before entered, perspiring profusely from the effects of the bath and the new clothes on my body; and the sweat streamed down whilst the scents of my dress were wafted abroad: I therefore sat me at the upper end of the street resting on a stone bench, after spreading under me an embroidered kerchief I had with me.

    The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

  • As Ozer struggled to free himself, he saw the second of the four guards — the one who had killed Salam — stagger toward him, bleeding profusely from the shoulder.

    The Accuser 2005

  • As Ozer struggled to free himself, he saw the second of the four guards — the one who had killed Salam — stagger toward him, bleeding profusely from the shoulder.

    The Accuser 2005

  • He also recognizes he has developed a tendency to equate music with the sounds of sirens, which blared incessantly the night he was lying on the ground bleeding profusely from a gunshot wound.

    Joy to the World, the POTUS Has Come | PopPolitics.com 2000

  • He was bleeding profusely from a cut on the lip and another over the eye, his head was bobbing weakly on his shoulders, and he wore, to be exact, one union suit minus two buttons on the chest and held together by a safety pin.

    Twenty-Three and a Half Hours' Leave 1918

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