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literally Adverb

— If something happens literally, it happens exactly as it was said. When I found out that the company would hire me, I literally jumped for joy. In fact, I hit my head on the ceiling.

literally

— adverb in a literal sense literally translated he said so literally — adverb (intensifier before a figurative expression) without exaggeration our eyes were literally pinned to TV during the Gulf War

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word for word verbatim word by word word-for-word virtually truly to the letter literatim bodily verbally twenty-five cents spoken really punctiliously orally nonverbatim meticulously lexically letter by letter in so many words in letter cool actually

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Simple sentences

He took it literally.

People were devouring, not eating, but literally devouring the dry overcooked meat.

If I were you, I wouldn't translate it literally.

Don't take everything so literally.

This can literally change your life forever.

Don't take it literally. He is inclined to exaggerate.

Don't take that too literally.

The poor dog was literally torn apart by the lion.

Don't take his remarks too literally.

He is literally stupid.

We know it's difficult, but please don't translate literally.

You take everything too literally.

Don't take it too literally.

After the botched gallbladder surgery, the patient was filled with bile, both figuratively and literally.

One of the most widespread errors in translating is to translate too literally - word by word.

Military discipline is literally rigid.

I didn't literally translate from English into Japanese.

She translated the text literally.

I literally danced until my shoes came off!

The pasta was literally swimming in butter.

It takes literally a minute to make the sauce.

I didn't mean that literally.

Movie subtitles

The key now is to go back in there, dig out these pieces and see if we can find any survivors, literally survivors.

I have spent my whole life escaping to far-off places, and it's only recently, like, now, like, literally this second that I realize, like, I can't do that!

Literally the most entertaining day of my life.

Like, I could literally go to any machine in this whole place and win in, like, two pulls.

Literally no nipples.

Apparently it was the horror of that experience that overpowered this phenomenal mind, which for so long had straddled the fine line between genius and madness, and literally deranged it.

Literally?

Perhaps he's taken them too literally.

She was literally alone.

He looks as though he were literally frightened to death.

The idea that a frail girl like you. could literally tear a boy of 10 to pieces is utterly ridiculous.

But I was in the unique position of having a fortune literally within my grasp.

You're taking me too literally.

There's literally none of the good scots left in your speech And none at all in your heart.

It's literally been six months since I've had pizza.

All I'm saying is that like I've literally tried every bra in the world, so.

Perhaps he's taken them too literally. Such researches can easily lead to obsession.

A few minutes later, in came three gorillas who literally threw me out.

Before we could get at him Sir Hugo was dead his body literally torn to shreds.

And she found the book that she carried from the train literally torn to bits.

He literally brushed by it as he came in.

Oh, come now, Mr. Crabtree, this is very literally a matter of life and death.

Greatest family in Andalusia. Castles in Spain, literally.

George thinks you've been taking his orders too literally.

You literally saved up the money for your meals, your Coca Cola.

I felt my heart beating wildly. I literally cried with joy and relief.

Ever since I left agricultural college, I starved, literally starved.

This house won't be literally filled with toys.

Literally solid!

Oh, not literally, he wanted to destroy the Drake McHugh you were.

I'm sorry, sheriff but I'm literally and figuratively a tenderfoot.

The hot wind from the south literally burns them away.

One is literally pursued.

It was really pretty wonderful, and then. all of a sudden I realized that this girl was almost literally insane about me.

Not literally. Your insurance company goes into shock every time something's stolen.

Kronos is literally eating himself up alive.

You mustn't always take me literally.

News and current affairs

We humans are now so aggressively fishing, hunting, logging, and growing crops in all parts of the world that we are literally chasing other species off the planet.

Moreover, these migrants are no longer exclusively of rural origin, nor do they travel only to traditional areas in the US; they are, literally, everywhere.

The cleverest, most literally earth-shattering notions of physics for two generations came not from the expected powerhouses of the day, but from Budapest.

This was literally true, because the British had reported that.

Their models, taken literally, sometimes suggested that a crisis of this magnitude couldn't happen.

During the last four years of his life, Arafat's public space was literally and metaphorically diminishing.

Think of Charlie Chaplin's film Modern Times, in which the little tramp is literally a cog in the capitalist machine.

This prospect literally gives me the shivers.

But we will need more than that to convince nearly 200 million young Muslims that extremism is, quite literally, a dead end.

Silvio Berlusconi, another real-estate billionaire, who began his career as a crooner on a cruise ship, was even more outrageous than Trump, as well as a master of the mass media - literally so, as he owned most of it in his country.

Repeated attempts to rewrite history - sometimes literally, through textbook revisions - along nationalist lines make it nearly impossible to establish regional institutions.

A misleading figure of speech has been applied literally to unleash a real war on several fronts, including Iraq, Gaza, Lebanon, Afghanistan, and Somalia.

Russia is literally buying its way back into the international system as a preeminent actor, one that is regaining power and clout by replacing nuclear weapons with oil and gas and substituting greed for fear.

My father was taken from prison and transported straight to central Berlin, where he was told to set up the office for Berlin's energy supply, a task that had to be done literally from nothing.

Instead, the release of pent-up consumer demand was literally half that of previous business cycles.

Others, such as Russia and Argentina, do not literally peg to the dollar but nevertheless try to smooth movements.

Estrada literally defined plunder: as a senator in the early 1990's, he was a member of the congress that crafted the law under which he was convicted.

The concept of universal human rights is literally foreign - enshrined in the broad-brush principles of the European Convention on Human Rights, whose court sits in Strasbourg.

There are literally hundreds of websites, radio programs, and TV networks that specialize in anti-Muslim and anti-Islam propaganda.

Some local governments are literally digging holes and then filling them in order to create GDP.

His inference was that, unless Party leaders were careful, this capitalist bird would literally burst out of its socialist cage, spelling an end to China's Marxist-Leninist revolution.

Yet, literally two days before this year's CDF began, the controversial Bo Xilai was removed as Party Secretary of Chongqing.

Unfortunately, these lessons - if taken literally - may end up being the wrong ones for emerging market economies to be drawing.

Each day, hundreds of interpreters literally pay lip service to this lofty precept, and millions of pages are translated annually so that citizens may consult EU law in their own language.

True, no European country worth its salt would ever allow its citizens to fall into such dire poverty that they literally could not escape from their homes in the face of a natural disaster.

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