<adv.all> he walked heavily up the three flights to his room
with great force
<adv.all> she hit her arm heavily against the wall
in a manner designed for heavy duty
<adv.all> a heavily constructed car heavily armed
slowly as if burdened by much weight
<adv.all> time hung heavy on their hands
in a labored manner
<adv.all> he breathed heavily
indulging excessively
<adv.all> he drank heavily
Heavily \Heav"i*ly\, adv. [From 2d {Heavy}.] 1. In a heavy manner; with great weight; as, to bear heavily on a thing; to be heavily loaded.
Heavily interested in those schemes of emigration. --The Century.
2. As if burdened with a great weight; slowly and laboriously; with difficulty; hence, in a slow, difficult, or suffering manner; sorrowfully.
And took off their chariot wheels, that they drave them heavily. --Ex. xiv. 25.
Why looks your grace so heavily to-day? --Shak.
3. Greatly; intensely; as, heavily involved in a plot; heavily invested in real estate. [PJC]
4. In large quantity; as, it rained heavily. [PJC]
Strong wind and towering 33-foot waves lashed the low-lying, heavily populated coastline of Andhra Pradesh state, knocking down hundreds of thatched huts, uprooting trees and downing power lines.
'But as its market erodes, it has a disincentive to fund the full range of work because its competitors can free ride.' By the new pattern in the US, aggressive small and mid-sized firms invest heavily in research, while the old giants hold R&D down.
Wilder challenged a decade of political wisdom by taking the offensive with commercials on abortion on television, where pro-choice and right-to-life groups have both spent heavily on commercials as well.
Speculative demand was sustained but analysts said that state-owned investment institutions sold heavily in all major stocks, smothering the rally.
In the fall, says veteran party strategist Steve Merksamer, Mr. Quayle may help "not with the general public per se but with the base" of conservative voters who must turn out heavily to keep the state in the GOP column.
That would have involved paying a premium for a company heavily dependent on one product and on a weak European market.
"What we saw in 1988 was a tightening of the noose around the necks of some of the more heavily indebted farmers," explained Neil Harl, an Iowa State University economics professor.
"It was the most heavily fortified rock house we've seen in a couple of years," said police spokesman Cmdr.
Bieber said the proposals from the Big Three would figure heavily in the union's selection of a target company.
Also, they are loaded heavily with commission and are less tax-efficient.
A passenger flying roundtrip between Baltimore and Los Angeles at full fare could have to pay up to $1,246 on a heavily booked flight to guarantee a seat for an infant.
Five heavily armed men were arrested in a surprise raid last week at a downtown Bogota apartment.
Prosecutors are relying heavily on court-approved wiretaps from late 1987 and early 1988 to provide evidence that Aguilar tried to influence the outcomes of cases by approaching two fellow judges and assisting in criminal appeals.
During the ceremony at Maiquetia airport, the 72-year-old president slumped heavily against a wall in the hot weather, and officials rushed to offer the French leader a chair, witnesses said.
London brokers have been hit in the past two years by a wave of heavy layoffs as the firms that had invested heavily after the 1986 Big Bang tried to bring bloated costs into line with a leaner and more competitive market.
By dawn, Mr. Ahn had spread FMC's exposure more heavily into U.S. dollars and British pounds.
The machinists believe the deal would leave UAL heavily in debt and could threaten the job security of union members.
"Our units weren't heavily invested in stocks and were liquid" with cash of about 1 billion francs in the group, he said.
The study also shows that the more heavily a contract is traded, the less slippage there is.
At least one serious near-collision at the heavily traveled port was due to conditions that included understaffing, fatigue, stress and the hurried training of newcomers, said pilot Capt.
The world would be infinitely richer if we allowed free trade among nations and heavily supported and/or retrained those who lost their jobs as a result.
Mr. Kassar, who owns 56% stake in Carolco, lives in a heavily guarded Beverly Hills mansion, gets a salary of $1.5 million and travels the world in a Carolco jet.
But fund officials said the Santa Fe Pacific Realty investment provides an opportunity to buy a stake in a large real estate portfolio heavily weighted with California properties.
Stade is 15 miles west of Hamburg and Biblis is 30 miles south of Frankfurt in the heavily populated Rhine River valley.
The revised U.S.-backed debt strategy has emphasized cutting back debt and interest payments over continued lending to heavily indebted developing countries.
Mr Furuichi says this year MCA profits are expected to climb by double digits, yet to make short-term financial sense, growth in triple digits would be required. The cost of the acquisition has weighed heavily on Matsushita's balance sheet.
Score one for Going Out and one for staying home. So Going Out emerges from this refresher course pretty robustly; the vitality of live events and the uniqueness of each performance score heavily.
Selling in the second quarter shifted more heavily to bonds from stocks, a matter deserving of some discussion later.
A fire early Tuesday heavily damaged a 12th century church that had been partially destroyed by the Great Fire of 1666 and rebuilt by Christopher Wren.
Manuel Antonio Noriega, Panama's former military strongman, was heavily involved in international gunrunning, working both sides of the political street, according to Senate investigators.