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Preposition

to

1. In the direction of; towards.
   • She looked to the heavens.
2. Indicating destination or final position: In the direction of, so as to arrive at or reach.
   • We are walking to the shop.
3. Used to indicate the target or recipient of an action.
   • I gave the book to him.
4. So as to contact, press against, impact, etc.
   • I fixed the notice to the wall.
5. So as to become or reach: indicating a terminal state resulting from an action.
   • His face was beaten to a pulp.
6. So as to bring about or elicit (an effect or outcome).
   • He made several bad-taste jokes to groans from the audience.

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Adverb

too (not comparable)

1. (focus) Likewise.
   • The preposterous altruism too![…]Resist not evil. It is an insane immolation of self—as bad intrinsically as fakirs stabbing themselves or anchorites warping their spines in caves scarcely large enough for a fair-sized dog.1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter XVI, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC
2. (conjunctive) Also, in addition marks a statement as equally valid as the preceding one.
   • There has been a cutback in federal subsidies. Rates have been increasing too.

   Synonyms:

   as well, additionally, eke

3. (degree) To an excessive degree, more than enough indicates that the degree of a quality is more than what is needed or wanted.
   • Near-synonyms: extremely, unnecessarily, all too

   Synonyms:

   unduly, over, over-, overly, excessively, extremely, unnecessarily, all too

4. (colloquial, degree) To a high degree, very.
   • She doesn't talk too much. I'm not too sure about this.

   Synonyms:

   so, all that

5. (childish, colloquial, emphatic) Used to contradict a negative assertion with present and simple past forms of be, do, and auxiliary verbs
   • You're not old enough yet. ― I am too!

   Synonyms:

   so

6. (archaic, colloquial) Used for emphasis, without reference to any previous statement.
   • The trooper thanks his informant and rides slowly on, looking about him. […] He comes to a gateway in the brick wall, looks in, and sees a great perplexity of iron lying about in every stage and in a vast variety of shapes— […] "This is a place to make a man's head ache too!" says the trooper...1852 March – 1853 September, Charles Dickens, Bleak House, London: Bradbury and Evans, […], published 1853, →OCLC