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every inch

every inch adverb: totally, completely.

Adverb

every inch (not comparable)

  1. (idiomatic) Totally, completely.
    • Wigan looked every inch a side languishing in the relegation zone and there was never any indication they would arrest a run that had seen them lose all of their previous eight Premier League matches at Arsenal.2011 January 22, Ian Hughes, “Arsenal 3 - 0 Wigan”, in BBC
    • It hopes for an order for the Bakerloo Line, where trains dating from 1972 still ply the route, looking every inch their 50 years.2025 January 8, Philip Haigh, “Will all of the UK train assembly lines survive?”, in RAIL, number 1026, page 51
  2. The whole (of something).
    • He knows every inch of the road.
    • The latter two required a long track walk from Whitechapel (after services ended and power was switched off), alongside TfL staff who know every inch of this historic stretch of line.2021 June 30, Tim Dunn, “How we made... Secrets of the London Underground”, in RAIL, number 934, page 49

every inch meaning in Bengali

every inch in Bengali

পুরোপুরি, সম্পূর্ণভাবে, কোনো কিছুর সম্পূর্ণ অংশ

Questions about every inch

What does every inch mean?
Every inch means totally, completely.
What is every inch in Bengali?
Every inch in Bengali is পুরোপুরি, সম্পূর্ণভাবে, কোনো কিছুর সম্পূর্ণ অংশ. See Every inch meaning in Bengali.
What part of speech is every inch?
Every inch is an adverb.

Words near every inch in the dictionary

  1. every good boy deserves food
  2. every good boy deserves fudge
  3. every good boy deserves fun
  4. every good boy does fine
  5. every hour God sends
  6. every inch
  7. every Jack has his Jill
  8. every king needs a queen
  9. every last
  10. every law has a loophole
  11. every law has its loophole

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Adapted from Wiktionary: every inch (page history and authors); every inch (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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