Meaning

From one side or end of (something) to the other..

Definitions by Sense

1. From one side or end of (something) to the other.
2. Via or by way of.
3. Throughout or across the extent of.
4. Amidst or surrounded by (while moving).
5. (Canada, US) To (or up to) and including, with all intermediate values; to... inclusive; until the end of.
6. By means of.
7. In consequence of; as a result of.
8. Passing from one side of something to the other.

Example Sentences

There are errors all through this report.

Work the eggs and sugar through the mixture.

We slogged through the mud for hours before turning back and giving up.

The arrow flew through the air.

I spent all day wading through paperwork.

Athelstan Arundel walked home all the way, foaming and raging. […] He walked the whole way, walking through crowds, and under the noses of dray-horses, carriage-horses, and cart-horses, without taking the least notice of them.

I stumbled along through the young pines and huckleberry bushes. Pretty soon I struck into a sort of path that, I cal'lated, might lead to the road I was hunting for. It twisted and turned, and, the first thing I knew, made a sudden bend around a bunch of bayberry scrub and opened out into a big clear space like a lawn.

Turning back, then, toward the basement staircase, she began to grope her way through blinding darkness, but had taken only a few uncertain steps when, of a sudden, she stopped short and for a little stood like a stricken thing, quite motionless save that she quaked to her very marrow in the grasp of a great and enervating fear.

Word Forms

• thru
• thro'
• thorough
• thoo
• thorow
• throughe
• thrue
• thurrow
• throughs

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Use through when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.

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