AS MUCH AS POSSIBLE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does as much as possible mean? 

• AS MUCH AS POSSIBLE (adverb)
  The adverb AS MUCH AS POSSIBLE has 1 sense:

1. to a feasible extent

  Familiarity information: AS MUCH AS POSSIBLE used as an adverb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• AS MUCH AS POSSIBLE (adverb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

To a feasible extent

Synonyms:

as far as possible; as much as possible

Context example:

she helped him as much as possible

 Context examples 

Mother likes to have us out-of-doors as much as possible, so we bring our work here and have nice times.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

When people come into a beautiful country of this sort, you know, Miss Woodhouse, one naturally wishes them to see as much as possible; and Mr. Suckling is extremely fond of exploring.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

To the rest of the family they paid little attention; avoiding Mrs. Bennet as much as possible, saying not much to Elizabeth, and nothing at all to the others.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

As I felt bound to assist him in this, and also to mediate between them; with the view of sparing the mother's feelings as much as possible, I wrote to her that night.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

“Do you know that your smile is crooked?” I asked him; for I knew that she must attend him, and I wished to save her as much as possible.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

He wished as much as possible to obliterate the memory of the scenes that had taken place in Ireland and never alluded to them or suffered me to speak of my misfortunes.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

This tells me if you are single, you should be circulating as much as possible this month, for you could meet someone intriguing.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

But I was resolved to fit the work as much as possible to the general capacity of readers.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

I am not conscious of having provoked the disappointment by any imprudence of my own, I have borne it as much as possible without spreading it farther.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

She occupied her mind as much as possible in such like musings and quotations; but it was not possible, that when within reach of Captain Wentworth's conversation with either of the Miss Musgroves, she should not try to hear it; yet she caught little very remarkable.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)