Gradually and Partially

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Gradually adverb - By small steps or amounts.

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Partially and gradually are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Partially" instead the word "Gradually" as an adjective or an adverb.

Nearby Words: gradual, gradation, gradualism

Partially adverb - In some measure or degree.

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Gradually and partially are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Gradually" instead the word "Partially" as an adjective or an adverb.

Nearby Words: part, partial, partiality, partly

She's also gradually decomposing as the embalming chemicals she's preserved with are only partially effective.

Source: Literature / American Gods
In Season nine, she gradually moves from minor villain to anti-hero, being partially responsible for bringing the Ori to the Milky Way among other things.

Source: Sixth Ranger
Hyde's conversation slowly reveals that he has just brutally raped and partially ate Hawley Griffin, the Invisible Man, whose blood gradually becomes visible on the walls and table and all over Hyde as Griffin dies in the next room.

Source: No Ontological Inertia

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