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shot through with

shot through with preposition: infused, permeated, streaked with (something).

Preposition

shot through with

  1. Infused, permeated, streaked with (something).
    • One of the great strengths of the mediaeval penitential system at its best (and stripped of the undoubted corruptions with which it was shot through) lay in its teaching about the use of the will for good in those in whom the Holy Spirit is at work.2002, Gillian Rosemary Evans, Problems of Authority in the Reformation Debates, page 138
    • Chinese government and society are shot through with corruption.2012, “Banyan: Embarrassed meritocrats”, in The Economist

Questions about shot through with

What does shot through with mean?
Shot through with means infused, permeated, streaked with (something).
What part of speech is shot through with?
Shot through with is a preposition.

Words near shot through with in the dictionary

  1. shot the messenger boy
  2. shot the moon
  3. shot the shit
  4. shot through
  5. shot through like a Bondi tram
  6. shot through with
  7. shot to nothing
  8. shot tower
  9. shot towers
  10. shot trouble
  11. shot up

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