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Completely; beyond recovery. Not any house of noble English in Ireland was utterly destroyed or finally rooted out. Sir J. Davies.

ften implies also loss, detriment, or destruction, and sometimes it is intensive, meaning utterly, quite thoroughly, as in forbathe.

Utterly drunk; very drunk. [Obs.] Chaucer.

To lose utterly. [Obs.] haucer.

To desolate or lay waste utterly. [Obs.] Spenser.

a game at cards; -- also called all fours, old sledge, and seven up. -- In high and low, utterly; completely; in every respect. [Obs.] Chaucer. -- On high, aloft; above. The dayspring from on high hath visited us. Luke i. 78. -- The Most High, the Supreme Being; God.

rived from wresting. Shak. -- To smite hip and thigh, to overthrow completely; to defeat utterly. Judg. xv. 8.

Wholly; completely; utterly; -- chiefly after the verb to beat, and often with all; as, this story beats the other all hollow. See All, adv. [Collog.] The more civilized so-called Caucasian races have beaten the Turks hollow in the struggle for existence. Darwin.

Men find that something can be said in favor of what, on the very proposal, they thought utterly indefensible. Burke.

attention as a special act of intelligence, and to distinguish it from consciousness, is utterly inept. Sir W. Hamilton.

arty of the court. Macaulay. It present becomes extravagant, then imbecile, and at length utterly inert. I. Taylor.

Not according to reason; absurd; foolish. It seemed utterly irrational any longer to maintain it. I. Taylor.

To wear out; to remove or destroy utterly by any means; to render imperceptible; as. to obliterate ideas; to obliterate the monuments of antiquity. The harsh and bitter feelings of this or that experience are slowly obliterated. W. Black.

Utterly; entirely. [Obs.] Chaucer.

To learn out [i. e., completely, utterly]; to exhaust knowledge of. Naught, according to his mind, He could outlearn. Spenser. Men and gods have not outlearned it [love]. Emerson.

Completely; utterly. Cardinal Manning.

An utterly lawless, riotous place or assemblage.

Contrary to nature or reason; not adapted to the end; utterly and glaringly foolish; unreasonably absurd; perverted. "Most preposterous conclusions." Shak. Preposterous ass, that never read so far! Shak.

Rashly negligent; utterly careless or heedless. It made the king as reckless as them diligent. Sir P. Sidney.

eptance; of no value; worthless. Everything that was vile and refuse, that they destroyed utterly. 1. Sam. xv. 9.