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everything

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Etymology

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Univerbation of every +‎ thing.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ˈɛvɹiθɪŋ/
  • Audio (US):(file)
  • Hyphenation: eve‧ry‧thing or ev‧e‧ry‧thing

Pronoun

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everything

  1. (literally) All the things under discussion.
    I checked the list again and everything is done.
    Thank you for everything you've done for us.
    • 1913, Joseph C[rosby] Lincoln, chapter IV, in Mr. Pratt’s Patients, New York, N.Y., London: D[aniel] Appleton and Company, →OCLC:
      I told him about everything I could think of; and what I couldn't think of he did. He asked about six questions during my yarn, but every question had a point to it. At the end he bowed and thanked me once more. As a thanker he was main-truck high; I never see anybody so polite.
  2. (colloquial, hyperbolic) Many or most things.
    A:What do you want to do at the amusement park?
    B:Everything!
    I did everything today - washed the dishes, cut the lawn, did the laundry.
    • 1859, Charles Dickens, The Haunted House:
      Then, I was sent to a great, cold, bare, school of big boys; where everything to eat and wear was thick and clumpy, without being enough […]
  3. (colloquial) A state of well-being (from all parts of the whole).
    She wasn't feeling well this morning but now everything is fine.
    Since the company lost its best customer everything has gotten worse.
  4. (colloquial) Considerable effort.
    It took everything in me to resist the temptation to skip work on my birthday.
  5. (colloquial) The most important thing.
    I can't believe I made it in time - timing is everything!

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Verb

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everything (third-person singular simple present everythings, present participle everythinging, simple past and past participle everythinged)

  1. (transitive, intransitive, colloquial, somewhat uncommon) Used as a placeholder verb to encapsulate a set of related verbs or any action. [from 19th c.]
    • 1990, Jonathan Gash, The Very Last Gambado, St. Martin's Press, page 107:
      ‘Hardly. We’re screened by every shrink in the kingdom. We're printed, weighed, photographed, everythinged. Selection for security takes a lifetime—one of our sayings,’ she added modestly.
    • 2001, Stanley Dance, The World of Swing, Da Capo Press, page 71:
      “ ‘You're right tonight, Boss Man,’ I said. ‘They’re laying it on us.’
      “They outswung us, they out-everythinged us.
    • 2007, Nancy Kennedy, Lipstick Grace, Multnomah Books, page 216:
      Charlie does, too. After being adopted by Joan, after having his matted coat shaved bare, after being dewormed and de-everythinged after being loved and fed and loved some more, Charlie has turned into a brand-new dog.
    • 2018 November 12, Ann Crawford, chapter 3, in Fresh off the Starship‎[1], Lightscapes Publishing:
      She spends as much time as possible surfing (as she quickly learns it's called), Youtubing, Googling, everythinging to research these human be-things.

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