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through and through

through and through adverb: completely; entirely; fundamentally.

Adverb

through and through (not comparable)

  1. Completely; entirely; fundamentally.
    • He moved from Cincinnati to San Francisco, but he's still a Cincinnati Bengals fan, through and through.
    • Thus, sitting where I was, I lit my candle once more, and then clambered across that great coffin which, for two hours or more, had been a mid-wall of partition between me and danger. But to get out of the niche was harder than to get in; for now that I had a candle to light me, I saw that the...[1898], J[ohn] Meade Falkner, Moonfleet, London; Toronto, Ont.: Jonathan Cape, published 1934, →OCLC

Noun

through and through (plural through and throughs)

  1. A bullet wound in which the bullet passes through the body.

through and through meaning in Tamil and Malayalam

through and through in Tamil

entirely
முழுக்க முழுக்க muḻukka muḻukka, பூரா pūrā

through and through in Malayalam

in every respect, to the core, absolutely
ആസകലം, എല്ലാരീതിയിലും, തികച്ചും, എല്ലാ വിധത്തിലും, സർവ്വപ്രകാരേണയും, ആദ്യന്തം

Forms of through and through

Adverb
alternative nounthrough-and-through
Noun
pluralthrough and throughs

Questions about through and through

What does through and through mean?
Through and through means completely; entirely; fundamentally.
What is through and through in Tamil?
Through and through in Tamil is முழுக்க முழுக்க (muḻukka muḻukka), பூரா (pūrā). See Through and through meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is through and through?
Through and through can be an adverb or a noun.

Words near through and through in the dictionary

  1. throttlingly
  2. throttlings
  3. throuble
  4. throubles
  5. through
  6. through and through
  7. through and throughs
  8. through ball
  9. through balls
  10. through bridge
  11. through bridges

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Adapted from Wiktionary: through and through (page history and authors); through and through (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license). 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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