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Definition of Sky-high

1. Adverb. (with verb 'to blow') destroyed completely; blown apart or to pieces. "The committee blew the thesis sky-high"

2. Adverb. In a lavish or enthusiastic manner. "He extolled her virtues sky-high"

3. Adverb. To a very high level. "The men were flung sky-high by the explosion"

Definition of Sky-high

1. Adjective. Extremely tall ¹

2. Adjective. Excessively, exorbitantly ¹

3. Adverb. To a very high level ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Sky-high

skurries skurry skurrying skute skutes skutterudite skutterudites skuttle skuttled skuttles

skuttling sky-blue sky-blue pink sky-diving sky-high (current term) sky ball sky blue sky blues sky burial sky daddy

sky dive sky diving sky girl sky glow sky marshal sky marshals sky parlor sky parlors sky parlour

Literary usage of Sky-high

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Lusiad: Or, The Discovery of India: an Epic Poem by Luís de Camões, William Julius Mickle (1809)
"... Faint and more faint the howling echoes die, And the black cloud dispersing leaves the sky. High to the angel host, whose guardian care Had ever round ..."

2. Songs of the Cowboys by Nathan Howard Thorp (1921)
"sky-high By N. Howard Thorp Tne scream of the outlaw split the air As we tied him hard and fast To the snubbing-post in the horse corral, For his turn had ..."

3. Excursion Through the Slave States: From Washington on the Potomac, to the by George William Featherstonhaugh (1844)
"... Government—A patriotic proposition to blow Virginia " sky-high " to save its Constitution—Botetourt Springs—A Camp of Negro Slave-drivers—The Coffle of ..."

4. Songs of the Cowboys by Nathan Howard Thorp (1921)
"sky-high By N. Howard Thorp Tne scream of the outlaw split the air As we tied him hard and fast To the snubbing-post in the horse corral, For his turn had ..."

5. Suomalais-englantilainen sanakirja by Severi Alanne (1919)
"-kappale heavenly (1. celestial) body, heavenly orb. -korkuinen .. high as heaven, sky-high, towering; ... sky-high. -merkki sign of (1. In) the sky. ..."

6. Suomalais-englantilainen sanakirja by Severi Alanne (1919)
"... 1. canopy 1. roof) or heaven, arch of the sky. -kappale heavenly (1. celestial) body, heavenly urb. -korkuinen . . high as heaven, sky-high, towering; ..."

7. The Library of Choice Literature and Encyclopædia of Universal Authorship edited by Ainsworth Rand Spofford, Charles Gibbon (1893)
"And not an inch to flinch he deigns save when ye pitch sky high, Then moves his head, as though he said, "Fear nothing—here am II" Swing in your strokes in ..."

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