1 (actually) literalmente I was quite literally living on bread and water estaba literalmente viviendo a base de pan y agua
They are people who have literally and spiritually left home The person's breath and sputum are literally swarming with bacilli To change a program, one literally had to rewire part of the machine... I own a cheese plant which has literally taken over my bedroom.
he's crazy, I mean literally está loco, y lo digo en el verdadero sentido de la palabra; they were quite literally in fear of their lives temían realmente por sus vidas; to take sth literally tomarse algo al pie de la letra
don't take that literally. Every criticism is to be taken literally John took him quite literally I was exaggerating but he took it literally
she literally flew out the door (as intensifier) (almost) salió casi volando por la puerta
2 (word for word) [+translate, mean] literalmente; palabra por palabra translated literally from Spanish, the title means the crying woman He was an old man, an elder, a wati-pulka (literally "big man"). Zensho shimasu, which the translator dutifully rendered literally as, I will do my best. her name in French means literally "Flower Face" Infarction means scarring; therefore, myocardial infarction literally means "scarred heart muscle".
