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US
/ˌhɪsˈtɛɹɪkɫi/
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[ UK /hɪstˈɛɹɪkli/ ]
[ UK /hɪstˈɛɹɪkli/ ]
ADVERB
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in a hysterical manner
she screamed hysterically when she heard the news
How To Use hysterically In A Sentence
- An evening at the Magpie and Crown in Brentford was certainly lively, intellectually stimulating and at times hysterically funny; and I think their cask-conditioned scrumpy is probably at least twice the advertised strength... A busy weekend...
- We found her standing on a chair, the picture of terror, screaming hysterically.
- They have chosen their footage wisely — and possily hysterically — as Rotaru, Miller and editors Harrison Engle and Drew Kilcoin culled 200 hours of material into a crammed 91 minutes. Current Movie Reviews, Independent Movies - Film Threat
- You watch as the waters begin to protrude, becoming a mass of hysterically delocalized pillars slithering upwards, outwards, onwards towards the shore. Faraday's Wave Garden
- It wasn't supposed to be a comedy but I found it hysterically funny.
- I grasp my aching head and turn around to see them laughing hysterically as the volleyball bounces away.
- Ryan was just hysterically laughing, asking how it was a twenty-one year old could lose to a five year old child in naughts and crosses.
- Humour for humour's sake is what we want, and in these anxious hours something to make us laugh quietly and unhysterically, if only by way of temporary relief. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 147, August 12, 1914
- Like, my dad was wearing a navy jumper with red and green argyle, and he tried on a red cardigan with navy and green argyle and I started laughing hysterically and saying ‘It's an argyle twinset!’
- If you do end up hiring a car, staying in motorway hotels is often cheaper than historic (and hysterically expensive) city locations Five Ways To Save Money On UK Travel | Lifehacker Australia