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headfirst

Adverb CEFR C2 Specialized

Definitions

  1. With the head in front; headlong.
    not-comparable
  2. Rashly; precipitately; without deliberation; hastily.
    not-comparable

Equivalents

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Examples

“Sheffield was not going to stop⟳ being Sheffield just because he had dived headfirst into the lusts of the flesh.”
“Over the past two years, Silicon Valley’s leaders and investors — many of whom had once forsworn involvement in weapons and war — have⟳ plunged headfirst into the military industrial complex.”

CEFR level

C2
Mastery
This word is part of the CEFR C2 vocabulary — mastery level.
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