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What does gradually mean?

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

Adverb
  1. In a gradual manner; making slow progress; slowly.
  2. (obsolete) by degrees
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Elytra piceous, gradually shaded into a castaneous margin, irregularly and minutely punctured, covered with ochraceous pubescence.
Some patients gradually develop a tolerance for the drug and need to be given a larger dose.
As his name gradually became known, the circle of his acquaintance widened.
At noon the barograph curve turned up and the wind moderated, the sky gradually clearing.
We watched the ship gradually fade from view as it sailed away.
Along the coast the mountains gradually merge with the shore.

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