English-French translations for heavily

• appesantir
• épais
• lourdement
  Allégement de la dette des pays ACP lourdement endettés Debt relief for heavily indebted ACP countries
  Le Cachemire devrait peser lourdement sur nos consciences. Kashmir should weigh heavily on our consciences.
  Nous devons sans tarder investir lourdement dans l'efficacité énergétique. Now we need to invest heavily in energy efficiency.

Definition of heavily

• In a heavy manner
• With a great weight
• To a considerable degree, to a great extent
• In a manner designed for heavy duty
• So as to be thick or heavy
• In a laboured manner

Examples

• She fell heavily into bed
• He clomped heavily up the stairs in his boots
• The great clod trod heavily on my toes!
• heavily burdened
• He relied heavily on the data collected by the others
• He drank heavily
• heavily in debt;   heavily tattooed
• heavily armed soldiers;   heavily armoured tanks;   heavily reinforced walls
• heavily built young men;   his heavily muscled arms
• he breathed heavily

Related words

• heavily armed
• heavily indebted
• heavily built
• heavily pregnant
• it is snowing heavily