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All

adjective

Quantifier; used with either mass or count nouns to indicate the whole number or amount of or every one of a class. "Ate all the food" , "All men are mortal" , "All parties are welcome" Antonyms: no, some.

Completely given to or absorbed by.

adverb

To a complete degree or to the full or entire extent ('whole' is often used informally for 'wholly'). Synonyms: altogether, completely, entirely, totally, whole, wholly. "Entirely satisfied with the meal" , "It was completely different from what we expected" , "Was completely at fault" , "A totally new situation" , "The directions were all wrong" , "It was not altogether her fault" , "An altogether new approach" , "A whole new idea" Antonym: partly.

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... profoundly during most of our voyage through the air. It puzzled me and I asked if this sleep had not been caused by some drug, mixed with my last meal, the captain of the "Terror" having wished thus to prevent me from knowing the place where we landed. All that I can recall of the previous night is the terrible impression made upon me by that moment when the machine, instead of being caught in the vortex of the cataract rose under the impulse of its machinery like a bird with its huge ...

— The Master of the World • Jules Verne

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— The Borough • George Crabbe

... great deal," put in Grace. "In fact, he said as much. He seemed to be utterly downcast. He didn't look like the dictatorial teacher he used to be at all." ...

— The Rover Boys in Business • Arthur M. Winfield

... is very weak, or where the brightest fair has some touch of the equivocating fiend. Love, let poets and lovers say what they will to the contrary, can no more subsist without hope than flame can exist without fuel. In all the cases cited to prove the contrary, we suspect that there has been some inaccuracy in the experiment, and that by mistake a little, a very little hope has been admitted. The slightest portion, a quantity imperceptible to common observation, is known to be quite sufficient to maintain ...

— Tales and Novels, Vol. VII - Patronage • Maria Edgeworth

... answered very faintly that as nothing was asked of him to the hurt of Dulcinea, he would carry out all the rest faithfully and truly. The Knight of the White Moon then galloped away toward the city, where one of the Governor's friends followed him, in order to find out who he was. The victorious knight was Samson Carrasco, ...

— Young Folks Treasury, Volume 3 (of 12) - Classic Tales And Old-Fashioned Stories • Various

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