adverb
- Spoken with poor articulation as if with a thick tongue.
- usage: "after a few drinks he was beginning to speak thickly"
- In a concentrated manner.
- usage: "old houses are often so densely packed that perhaps three or four have to be demolished for every new one built"; "a thickly populated area"
- synonyms: densely
- With a thick consistency.
- usage: "the blood was flowing thick"
- synonyms: thick
- With thickness; in a thick manner.
- usage: "spread 1/4 lb softened margarine or cooking fat fairly thickly all over the surface"; "we were visiting a small, thickly walled and lovely town with straggling outskirt"
- In quick succession.
- usage: "misfortunes come fast and thick"
- synonyms: thick
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