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Adverb: thoroughly  thur-u-lee or thur-ow-lee [N. Amer], thú-ru-lee [Brit]
  1. In an exhaustive manner
    "we searched the files thoroughly";
    - exhaustively
     
  2. Completely and absolutely
    "he was thoroughly defeated";
    - soundly, good [N. Amer], proper
     
  3. Used as an intensifier
    "she was thoroughly gifted";
    - very, really, real [N. Amer], rattling [informal], mucho [informal], cracking [Brit, informal], rotten [informal], massively [informal], dirty [Brit, informal], excellently, magnificently, splendidly, famously, tremendously [informal], capitally, awesomely [informal]