RAPIDLY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does rapidly mean? 

• RAPIDLY (adverb)
  The adverb RAPIDLY has 1 sense:

1. with speed

  Familiarity information: RAPIDLY used as an adverb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• RAPIDLY (adverb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

With speed

Synonyms:

apace; chop-chop; in short order; quickly; rapidly; speedily

Context example:

John got ready in short order

Pertainym:

rapid (done or occurring in a brief period of time)

 Context examples 

It grows rapidly and is usually detected after it has metastasized to other anatomic sites.

(Pancreatic Ductal Adenocarcinoma, NCI Thesaurus)

“Our material is rapidly accumulating,” said he.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

His daughter attended him with the greatest tenderness, but she saw with despair that their little fund was rapidly decreasing and that there was no other prospect of support.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

A usually rapidly growing malignant germ cell tumor arising from the ovary.

(Ovarian Yolk Sac Tumor, NCI Thesaurus)

Upon intratumoral injection, oncolytic HSV1716 transfects, replicates in, and lyses rapidly dividing cells such as tumor cells.

(Oncolytic HSV1716, NCI Thesaurus)

A few good cases and the reputation which I had won in the hospital brought me rapidly to the front, and during the last few years I have made him a rich man.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

CD74, an integral membrane protein and tumor associated antigen (TAA), is overexpressed in certain cancer cells and promotes survival in rapidly proliferating tumor cells.

(Milatuzumab-Doxorubicin Antibody-Drug Conjugate, NCI Thesaurus)

I rapidly threw on my clothes and was ready in a few minutes to accompany my friend down to the sitting-room.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Zilla, on the other hand, rocked more rapidly, and for the first time, in sharp little yelps, voiced her pain.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

He ate his share of meat as rapidly as he could.

(White Fang, by Jack London)