gradually — Dizionario inglese

Avverbio

1. In a gradual manner; making slow progress; slowly.

   Esempi

   Altri esempi (2)

   The most likely conclusion, the researchers say, is that the Levallois method was not taken to Eurasia by African migrants, but evolved there gradually and independently.

   The instrument of this dumbing down in Nineteen Eighty-Four was Newspeak, the official language of the English Socialist Party (Ingsoc). Newspeak was a sort of Totalitarian Esperanto that sought gradually to diminish the range of what was thinkable by eliminating, contracting and manufacturing words.

2. by degrees

   Uso

   • obsoleto

   Sinonimi

   incrementally

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   Horns, upon the due accession of Moisture, doth gradually become Soft.

Avverbio

1. in a gradual manner

   Sinonimi

   bit by bitstep by step

   Esempi

   the snake moved gradually toward its victim