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[ adverb ] with anxiety or apprehension
Synonyms Examples "we watched anxiously" Used in print (Philip Reaves, "Who Rules the Marriage Bed?"...)`` The pattern '' , says Dr._Morton_Schillinger , psychologist at New_York 's Lincoln_Institute_for_Psychotherapy , `` is for the husband to hover about anxiously and eagerly , virtually trembling in his hope that she will flash him the signal that tonight is the night '' . (Frances and Richard Lockridge, Murder Has...)- to lunge anxiously through crowded streets to railroad_stations and , at odd hours of night , drive from smaller stations to distant homes , probably through rain or , in November , something worse . Related terms |
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