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Synonyms for painfully
One audited sense, one true synonym, and three words that come close enough to cost you the rung.
in or as if in pain
She moved painfully forward.
The true synonym
sorely
Same sentence, swapped: She moved sorely forward.
Close but different
These are the other three tiles the game puts on screen for this sense. Each one is a real word with a real meaning, and none of them is a synonym for painfully as it is used in the sentence above.
- painlessly
- harshly
- severely
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