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15 words match “COPIOUSLY”

COPIOUSLY adv.
In a copious manner.
ABOUND v.
To be copiously supplied; -- followed by in or with. To abound in, to posses in such abundance as to be characterized by. -- To abound with, to be filled with; to possess in great numbers. Men abounding in natural courage. Macaulay. A faithful man shall abound with blessings. Prov. xxviii. 20. It abounds with cabinets…
AFFLUENTLY adv.
Abundantly; copiously.
AMPLIFY v. 2 definitions
To enlarge by addition or discussion; to treat copiously by adding particulars, illustrations, etc.; to expand; to make much of. Troilus and Cressida was written by a Lombard author, but much amplified by our English translator. Dryden.
DILATE v. 2 definitions
To enlarge upon; to relate at large; to tell copiously or diffusely. [R.] Do me the favor to dilate at full What hath befallen of them and thee till now. Shak.
GUSH v.
ith violence and rapidity, as a fluid; to rush forth as a fluid from confinement; to flow copiously. He smote the rock that the waters gushed out. Ps ixxviii 20. A sea of blood gushed from the gaping wound. Spenser.
GUSHING a. 2 definitions
Rushing forth with violence, as a fluid; flowing copiously; as, gushing waters. "Gushing blood." Milton.
GUSHINGLY n.
In a gushing manner; copiously. Byron.
LARGIFLUOUS a.
Flowing copiously. [Obs.]
QUAFF v.
To drink with relish; to drink copiously of; to swallow in large draughts. "Quaffed off the muscadel." Shak. They eat, they drink, and in communion sweet Quaff immortality and joy. Milton.
ROLL v.
To utter copiously, esp. with sounding words; to utter with a deep sound; -- often with forth, or out; as, to roll forth some one's praises; to roll out sentences. Who roll'd the psalm to wintry skies. Tennyson.
RUN v.
To discharge; to emit; to give forth copiously; to be bathed with; as, the pipe or faucet runs hot water. At the base of Pompey's statua, Which all the while ran blood, great Cæsar fell. Shak.
SHOWER n.
That which resembles a shower in falling or passing through the air copiously and rapidly. With showers of stones he drives them far away. Pope.
SLUICE v.
To wet copiously, as by opening a sluice; as, to sluice meadows. Howitt. He dried his neck and face, which he had been sluicing with cold water. De Quincey.
SLUICY a.
Falling copiously or in streams, as from a sluice. And oft whole sheets descend of sluicy rain. Dryden.