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furiosamente

furiously

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Usage Note

Furiosamente intensifies an action with a sense of rage or extreme force. Like most Spanish adverbs ending in -mente, it is formed from the feminine adjective furiosa + -mente. In written Spanish, when two -mente adverbs appear together, only the last one takes -mente: rápida y furiosamente.

Examples

"El perro ladró furiosamente al cartero."

Natural Translation

The dog barked furiously at the mail carrier.

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