dearly
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3.9
- adverb
- /ˈdɪrli/
:
caro
- All I know is... you are going to pay dearly for this one, young man.
- pay dearly
- cost him dearly
Goodness knows that it's wasted our time and it costs us dearly, but we know that she needs our support.
- Goodness knows that it's wasted our time and it costs us dearly, but we know that she needs our support.
- He carried off all three, saying Paris paid dearly for the preference to one out of three.
- And that cost him fairly dearly with the ads that were run against him when he ran for president.
- And it has cost me dearly in this bullshit show businessy thing.
- One day you do realize that they actually do expect you to read their minds and that you will pay dearly if you cannot do so.
- And you can't get the energy of the experience that you have paid dearly to get by being locked up in a physical body.
Examples
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And you will pay dearly.
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Oh, somebody will have to pay dearly for this war someday!
Fiction book (1990) -
And I promise you, he going to pay dearly for this... very dearly.
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You shall pay dearly for them!
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"Someone will pay dearly for this."
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What a man wants from you, a man will pay dearly to get.
Fiction book (1997) -
Days of fighting have cost the British dearly, with the loss of 11 men and 32 wounded.
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The Persian Gulf region and the world at large have paid dearly for similar policies in the past.
Academic text (2007) -
It costs dearly, but home always does.
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Many businesses have paid dearly for ignoring safety regulations, facing heavy fines and lawsuits.
Synonyms
11
2.7
In a very strong, unpleasant way often about cold weather or pain
6
7.2
In a way that causes great harm, pain, or sadness
Suffering a lot as a result of something
Antonyms
Compounds
How Costly
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
The word dearly comes from an old English root deor meaning 'precious' or 'costly' and the ending -ly that makes it describe how something happens. So to pay dearly for something is to pay a high price or suffer a great loss.