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precipitously
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Adverbial precipitously has 2 senses
- precipitously(r = adv.all) sharply - very suddenly and to a great degree; "conditions that precipitously increase the birthrate"; "prices rose sharply"
- precipitously(r = adv.all) Array - abruptly; in a precipitous manner; "the mountains rose precipitously from the shore"
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