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UNCONTROLLABLY
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Dictionary entry overview: What does uncontrollably mean?
• UNCONTROLLABLY (adverb)
The adverb UNCONTROLLABLY has 1 sense:
Familiarity information: UNCONTROLLABLY used as an adverb is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
In an uncontrolled manner
Context example:
she laughed uncontrollably
Pertainym:
uncontrolled (not being under control; out of control)
Context examples
A key concern with any stem cell therapy is its oncogenic potential: the ability for cells to multiply uncontrollably and form tumors.
(Researchers rescue photoreceptors, prevent blindness in animal models of retinal degeneration, National Institutes of Health)
Yet, still, words like those I have recorded would burst uncontrollably from me.
(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)
Differentiated tumor cells resemble normal cells and tend to grow and spread at a slower rate than undifferentiated or poorly differentiated tumor cells, which lack the structure and function of normal cells and grow uncontrollably.
(Cellular Differentiation, NCI Dictionary)
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