"barely" meaning in English

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    {
      "args": {
        "1": "bare",
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  "etymology_text": "bare + -ly",
  "hyphenation": "bare‧ly",
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adv",
  "senses": [
    {
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "After the accident, she was barely able to stand."
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "If you can barely do something, you can do it only with great difficulty or effort."
      ],
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      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "hardly"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "The house was barely visible in the distance."
        },
        {
          "text": "With all the troubles, the business was barely surviving."
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "If something is barely some way, it is almost not so at all."
      ],
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    },
    {
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "The alarm had barely rung when he was out of bed."
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "If something has barely happened, almost no time has passed since it happened."
      ],
      "id": "simple-barely-en-adv-k-Qb2nUW"
    },
    {
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "The church had seating for 200, but barely 20 had come."
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "If there is barely some amount or number, it's not much and you would expect more."
      ],
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    }
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      "ipa": "/ˈbɛə(r).li/",
      "tags": [
        "UK"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈbɛr.li/",
      "tags": [
        "US"
      ]
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      "audio": "LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-barely.wav",
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  "word": "barely"
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  ],
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    {
      "args": {
        "1": "bare",
        "2": "ly"
      },
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    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "bare + -ly",
  "hyphenation": "bare‧ly",
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adv",
  "senses": [
    {
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "After the accident, she was barely able to stand."
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "If you can barely do something, you can do it only with great difficulty or effort."
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "hardly"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "The house was barely visible in the distance."
        },
        {
          "text": "With all the troubles, the business was barely surviving."
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "If something is barely some way, it is almost not so at all."
      ]
    },
    {
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "The alarm had barely rung when he was out of bed."
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "If something has barely happened, almost no time has passed since it happened."
      ]
    },
    {
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "The church had seating for 200, but barely 20 had come."
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "If there is barely some amount or number, it's not much and you would expect more."
      ]
    }
  ],
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      "tags": [
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    },
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      "ipa": "/ˈbɛr.li/",
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  "word": "barely"
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