THROUGH AND THROUGH

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does through and through mean? 

• THROUGH AND THROUGH (adverb)
  The adverb THROUGH AND THROUGH has 1 sense:

1. throughout the entire extent

  Familiarity information: THROUGH AND THROUGH used as an adverb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• THROUGH AND THROUGH (adverb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Throughout the entire extent

Synonyms:

through; through and through

Context example:

boards rotten through and through

 Context examples 

I was not merely over head and ears in love with her, but I was saturated through and through.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

As it was, the situation stopped there in the only way it could; but I was left alone in my little hut, glowing warmly through and through with a pleasant satisfaction; and I knew that a tie, or a tacit something, existed between us which had not existed before.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

How long it had been searching me through and through, and over and over, I cannot tell: so keen was it, and yet so cold, I felt for the moment superstitious—as if I were sitting in the room with something uncanny.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

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)

Dora made him lie down by her, with a good deal of persuasion; and when he was quiet, drew one of his long ears through and through her hand, repeating thoughtfully, Even little Jip!

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)