What does inchmeal mean?
Inchmeal means (idiomatic) Gradually, little by little (an inch at a time)..
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/ˈɪnt͡ʃ.miːl/ · adverb
(idiomatic) Gradually, little by little (an inch at a time)..
All the infections that the sun sucks up / From bogs, fens, flats, on Prosper fall, and make him / By inch-meal a disease!
Those who are not thus slippery in the tail, are light of finger; and of these the most pernicious are those who beggar you inchmeal.
I am a sanguinary murderer of time, and would kill him inchmeal just now.
He could be as patient as Death, that inchmeal stalker of his prey; he could be as ruthless as the sea, and incredibly generous upon occasion.
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Inchmeal means (idiomatic) Gradually, little by little (an inch at a time)..
The closest synonym depends on the sentence and intended sense.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
All the infections that the sun sucks up / From bogs, fens, flats, on Prosper fall, and make him / By inch-meal a disease!
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