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BARELY

ADVERB
BARE + LY = BARELY

DESNUDO+(ADVERB) =APENAS
MEANING:

1. You use barely to say that something is only just true or


only just the case.
Anastasia could barely remember the ride to the hospital.
His voice was barely audible
It was 90 degrees and the air conditioning barely cooled the room..
MEANING:

1. If you say that one thing had barely happened when something
else happened, you mean that the first event was followed
immediately by the second.

Barely had she recovered from this trauma when her father died.

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