adverb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
densely/heavily/highly/thickly populated (= with a lot of people )
▪
one of the most densely populated areas in the world
thickly/heavily/densely etc forested
▪
heavily forested terrain
thickly/heavily/densely etc wooded
▪
a thickly wooded area
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
wooded
▪
Most of northern Calabria is mountainous and thickly wooded with pine, silver fir and maple.
▪
The spacious stone house had originally been one of three sharing the same hilly and thickly wooded parcel of land.
▪
We drove on through the village and turned into a clearing surrounded by a thickly wooded area.
▪
The land over the hill was thickly wooded .
▪
Its thickly wooded shores, pastoral rivers and mercurial weather draw naturalists and artists.
▪
It was difficult to determine from which direction they were coming due to the thickly wooded area that we were dug-in.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪
A slattern brought his own meal, a thickly spiced bowl of soup.
▪
He was a stout man with a bald crown round which a ruff of brown hair grew thickly .
▪
He was in a blue uniform coat that was thickly encrusted with gold loops and edged with black astrakhan fur.
▪
It has a thickly soft, two-beat thud, like the sound of a heavy door being repeatedly opened and shut.
▪
Peel off the skins and thickly slice the potatoes.
▪
The snow was driving down so thickly that the windscreen-wiper couldn't keep the glass free of it.