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Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
really/ˈriːəli/

▶adverb

1 in reality; in actual fact.

2 very; thoroughly.

▶exclamation

1 expressing interest, surprise, doubt, or protest.

2 chiefly US expressing agreement.

'really' also found in these Oxford entries:

dinkum - disingenuous - downplay - exaggerate - Four Hundred - honest - honestly - honest-to-God - infer - jumped-up - just - lush - material - nepotism - pit - put - quite - real - RSS - simplistic - something - split infinitive - trivialize - truly - truth - underestimate - underplay - under-record - understate - unique - vanity sizing - way - wolf

Forum discussions with the word(s) "really" in the title:

- I'm really cut about it.
...I don't really know what you <what is a relative pronoun>
...should think him unpractical, which he really was not.
...students knew how useless all those kicks really are/were
'got really busy, so I freaked' vs 'got really busy. I freaked'
'really knew her stuff' [OR: knows]
"Blasta" - what does it really mean? Is this a common word?
"go on" - meaning "really?"
"had to be really"
"he really tanked" from movie Hitch
"He seems really convinced he knows literally everything"?
"I don't really know how does it was"
"I never really rose above the role of shikari"
"I'm not one of these guys that really gives a darn about elite opinion"
"Perhaps it is "c***" that writing really seeks to be,
"real" for "really" (coll. BE ?)
"real" instead of "really"
"very" and "really"
"You really can't bottle this kind of chemistry."
a new treatment that has really been
A reall Diamond or A really Diamond?
a really frightening thing to see
a really hard work / really a hard work
About "not to be really walking".
actually/really does // does indeed
all it's really mad
all that really matters
And his achievements really matched his diligence.
And it begun between them not really a romance
And with so much to see and experience, no one really cares.
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