softly : Idioms & Phrases

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laugh softly

  • verb laugh quietly or with restraint
    chortle; chuckle.
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tread-softly

  • noun a stinging herb of tropical America
    pica-pica; Cnidoscolus urens; devil nettle; spurge nettle; Jatropha urens; Jatropha stimulosus.
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Tread"-soft`ly noun
Definitions
  1. (Bot.) Spurge nettle. See under Nettle.
Webster 1913

very softly

  • adverb a direction in music; to be played very softly
    pianissimo.
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