DOUBLY


Meaning of DOUBLY in English

adverb

COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS

■ ADJECTIVE

difficult

Oh, how doubly difficult it was for them both.

This is made doubly difficult where there is a concurrent struggle for power among vested interest groups and individuals.

So you have the doubly difficult task of being speedy and sure of your ground.

It's made doubly difficult because of her blindness.

And if your skin is sensitive and easily irritated, finding suitable products can be doubly difficult .

important

The closure was doubly important because the catchment area covered the inner London districts of Westminster, Paddington and Hammersmith.

In fact, in the Republic of Ireland, catholicism is doubly important .

It was therefore doubly important that the physician did not deceive his patients.

sure

You're supposed to touch the cross for luck; we fell on it to make doubly sure of ours.

After all, new citizens who may have voted erroneously in 1996 will be doubly sure to get things right next time.

Its exclusion from major anthologies made doubly sure that after a generation or so it was read by almost no one.

When he found Fern Cottage in darkness and Seb missing he had been doubly sure .

A second treatment with the product you have used a week later will make doubly sure the lice have all been eradicated.

Fitting wheel locks or clamps can make doubly sure .

■ VERB

make

You're supposed to touch the cross for luck; we fell on it to make doubly sure of ours.

However, to make doubly certain, he sprayed on a second layer; then he set off toward the antenna.

This is made doubly difficult where there is a concurrent struggle for power among vested interest groups and individuals.

And since in his innocence he does not understand this, his natural grief is made doubly painful.

It's made doubly difficult because of her blindness.

A second treatment with the product you have used a week later will make doubly sure the lice have all been eradicated.

Fitting wheel locks or clamps can make doubly sure.

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

Here too, the doubly forbidden relationship had its penalties.

It was plain that she must work doubly hard.

It would be a doubly beneficial act.

Obviously the magistrates were trying to take more care with the girls before them whom they saw as doubly problematic.

Or would the command of the amendment finally be winked at, in which case the Constitution would be doubly trashed?

Props who can play on either head can be doubly useful on a bruising tour.

This is doubly true of its patterns of industrial waste flow.

To some extent, also, they were doubly unlucky in 1991.

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