all

all
1. adverb /ɔːl,ɔl,ɒl,ɑl/
a) Apiece; each.

You’ve got it all wrong.

b) So much.

She was all, “Whatever.”

2. noun /ɔːl,ɔl,ɒl,ɑl/
a) Everything possible.

She gave her all, and collapsed at the finish line.

b) The totality of ones possessions.

she therefore ordered Jenny to pack up her alls and begone, for that she was determined she should not sleep that night within her walls.


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