Read full poem →_Cain._ What! fallen? so quickly down—so easily felled,
And so completely? Why, he does not move.
Will not he stir—will he not breathe again?
Dictionary Entry
In a complete manner; totally; entirely.
In a Sentence
“The old house was completely destroyed by the storm, leaving nothing standing.”
Origin
From Middle English 'compleet', from Latin 'complere' meaning 'to fill up'.
Common Phrases
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Poetry examples for “completely”
Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.
Read full poem →piece, whilst the spirit of Bobadil transmigrated as
completely into Woodward, as that of Euphorbus did
into Pvthagoras; and when the good folks of London
Read full poem →ticisms upon that author made people study him, and some excellent actors
revived these comedies, which completely opened men's eyes; and it is now
become as fashionable to admire as it had been to decry them.
Read full poem →contains Books I-VI, variously bound into one or two volumes.
Books I-III were completely reset, apparently not from the MS.
but from a copy of 1590 heavily annotated by the author. Some,
Read full poem →Not for these I sit and stare,
Broken and bereft completely;
Your young flesh that sat so neatly
Read full poem →Not for these I sit and stare,
Broken and bereft completely;
Your young flesh that sat so neatly
Read full poem →observer of her whom I would make known. She
and I had become pretty completely one. Often my
only way of telling about her is to tell about myself.
Read full poem →One so royal in attire,
When in arms completely furnished,
Harness gold-inlaid and burnished,
Read full poem →It was not often in the sixteenth or seventeenth century that a
completely emancipated and critical attitude on religious, not
philosophical, questions was expressed with such entire frankness and
Read full poem →the later editions, but I have not reproduced any of these editions so
completely as 1633, every poem in which, with the exception of Basse's
_An Epitaph upon Shakespeare_ (1633. p. 149 i.e. 165) has been here