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B2 slowly over a period of time or a distance: Gradually, she realized that he wasn't telling her the truth. The bank slopes gradually down to the river.
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More examplesFewer examplesThe sound of his footsteps gradually died away.The bank slopes gradually down to the river.The painful memories gradually receded in her mind.As the plot unfolds, you gradually realize that all your initial assumptions were wrong.Those who disagreed with the director's viewpoint were gradually edged out of the company.
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Small lanes were gradually added to demarcate different sections and also to connect them as an organic whole.
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Over the next three weeks, the effect gradually returned.
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Servants were gradually replaced by other types of labour with work duties as crofters or different types of paid workers.
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Formal political influence over policy increased gradually over the whole period at the expense of technical influence, and social objectives were given priority.
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Imports of raw cotton only gradually took up the slack-and then only in quite erratic fashion.
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The voltage pulse was gradually increased until some and the experiof the pulses were turbulent.
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The last particles merely cool gradually and never react.
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The scale length becomes long furthermore, the total beam energy gradually decreases.
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The water level (decreased/was decreased) gradually. 12.
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The dry ice gradually sublimed throughout the 2-d period, and had disappeared by the time samples were removed from the refrigerator.
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Both genres have been popular in the past, but have been gradually replaced by popular music.
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Gradually from then he became very withdrawn, and he stopped reading the papers.
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Sufficient practice may enable the poor readers to gradually store the orthographic form into memory and rely on direct recognition at the time of posttesting.
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If we gradually reduce the degree to which this value is realized, we shall eventually reach a point at which it is lost.
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After having more than doubled, to 1,780,000, by the mid-eighteenth century, it gradually decreased to 1,520,000 over the next hundred years.
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gradual
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adjective
grad·u·al
ˈgra-jə-wəl
-jəl,
ˈgraj-wəl
Synonyms of gradual
1
: moving, changing, or developing by fine or often imperceptible degrees
2
: proceeding by steps or degrees
gradually
adverb
gradualness
noun
gradual
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noun
often capitalized
1
: a book containing the choral parts of the Mass
2
: a pair of verses (as from the Psalms) proper after the Epistle in the Mass
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gradational
incremental
phased
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We noticed a gradual change in temperature.
The hospital has made gradual improvements in health care.
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Medieval Latin gradualis, from Latin gradus
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Middle English, from Medieval Latin graduale, from Latin gradus step; from its being sung on the steps of the altar
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1658, in the meaning defined at sense 2 Noun
15th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1
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grad·u·al
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: proceeding by steps or degrees
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: moving or changing by slight degrees
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gradually
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Definition of gradually
as in slowly
by small steps or amounts
gradually worked his way down the class roster add the sugar to the beaten egg whites gradually to make the meringue
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slowly
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progressively
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Definition of gradually adverb from the Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary
gradually adverb /ˈɡrædʒuəli/ /ˈɡrædʒuəli/
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slowly, over a long period of timeto gradually increase/decreaseThe weather gradually improved.Gradually, the children began to understand.Women have gradually become more involved in the decision-making process.Oxford Collocations DictionaryGradually is used with these verbs: abandonabsorbaccumulate…See full entry
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gradually From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary Englishgraduallygrad‧u‧a‧lly /ˈɡrædʒuəli/ ●●● S3 W3 adverb
SLOWslowly, over a long period of time OPP suddenly
Jill gradually became aware of an awful smell.
Gradually, my ankle got better.► see thesaurus at slowlyExamples from the Corpusgradually• As the weeks passed, I gradually accepted the idea of him leaving.• The climate is gradually becoming drier and warmer.• Some patients experience a slow decline in their health as the effectiveness of the drugs gradually decreases.• Most patients gradually develop a resistance to the drug.• She gradually got sicker and sicker.• The first dilemma has been discussed: the managers gradually learned that their subordinates varied extensively in skill and motivation.• It began to slide toward the gradually opening door.• These cost reductions occurred gradually over a six-year period.• Then gradually twitches of life manifested themselves and it is now as well as can be expected.
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