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What does nearly mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word nearly? Here's what it means.

Adverb
  1. (now rare) With great scrutiny; carefully. [from 16th c.]
  2. With close relation; intimately. [from 16th c.]
  3. Closely, in close proximity. [from 16th c.]
  4. In close approximation; almost, virtually. [from 17th c.]
  5. Stingily.
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She fell into the cold water and nearly died from hypothermia.
But his friendly, short-sighted eyes and beakish nose were traditional enough, and his hair was sparse, as befitted a man of nearly seventy.
All dressed up and nowhere to go, nearly 7,000 competitors in almost 1,000 yachts were left drifting around in the central Solent yesterday.
He suffered a series of tragedies that nearly drove him to madness.
The same pattern of political action was observable in the dairy industry's quest for antimargarine statutes nearly 50 years earlier.
When lying down arkars nearly always keep the head erect, as if on the lookout, and when sleeping they lie with the neck outstretched.

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