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THROUGH WITH
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Having finished or arrived at completion
Example:
almost through with his studies
Synonyms:
Classified under:
Similar:
finished (ended or brought to an end)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Having no further concern with
Example:
done with drinking
Synonyms:
done with; through with
Classified under:
Similar:
finished (ended or brought to an end)
Context examples:
You have done a great deal of work on this mission over the past two years, and while it might not have always been easy, as the practical soldier that you are, you powered through with grace, never with so much as a grumble.
(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)
She did not mention this meeting at home (though she discovered that, thanks to the upset, her new dress was much damaged by the rivulets of dressing that meandered down the skirt), but went through with the preparations which now seemed more irksome than before, and at twelve o'clock all was ready again.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
I waded through with some difficulty, and one of the footmen wiped me as clean as he could with his handkerchief, for I was filthily bemired; and my nurse confined me to my box, till we returned home; where the queen was soon informed of what had passed, and the footmen spread it about the court: so that all the mirth for some days was at my expense.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)
Well, well, we’ve got to go through with it.
(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
They were always masses of leaves and shrub-like branches shot through with hot sunshine.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
I have not the heart to go through with the details.
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
Britannia, that unfortunate female, is always before me, like a trussed fowl: skewered through and through with office-pens, and bound hand and foot with red tape.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
I had time to notice that the pockets of the dead man had been emptied on the deck, and that his body and his grin had been wrapped from view in canvas, the folds of which the sailor, Johansen, was sewing together with coarse white twine, shoving the needle through with a leather contrivance fitted on the palm of his hand.
(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)
Kindly, as usual—and, as usual, rather trite—she condoled with him on the pressure of business he had had all day; on the annoyance it must have been to him with that painful sprain: then she commended his patience and perseverance in going through with it.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
At the very foot of the stair, close to the open door of their chamber, lay the seneschal and his wife: she with her head shorn from her shoulders, he thrust through with a sharpened stake, which still protruded from either side of his body.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
