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THROUGH WITH
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Dictionary entry overview: What does through with mean?
• THROUGH WITH (adjective)
The adjective THROUGH WITH has 2 senses:
1. having finished or arrived at completion
2. having no further concern with
Familiarity information: THROUGH WITH used as an adjective is rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Having finished or arrived at completion
Synonyms:
Context example:
almost through with his studies
Similar:
finished (ended or brought to an end)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Having no further concern with
Synonyms:
done with; through with
Context example:
done with drinking
Similar:
finished (ended or brought to an end)
Context examples
And as for you, Johnson, you’ll get so tired of life before I’m through with you that you’ll fling yourself over the side. See if you don’t.
(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)
But we are honor bound to go back and have them out or see it through with them.
(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
It had indeed been an awful strain on him; and had he not been forced to his task by more than human considerations he could never have gone through with it.
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
“Young man, you’ll know enough of who you ’ave to fight before you are through with it,” cried Berks, lurching heavily through the crowd.
(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
The vistas he saw were vistas of green foliage and forest glades, all softly luminous or shot through with flashing lights.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
The dust was traced back to the local interstellar cloud: a nearly empty bubble of gas and dust that our solar system is traveling through with a distinct direction and speed.
(Saturn Spacecraft Samples Interstellar Dust, NASA)
I hated the business, I begged leave to defer it: no—it should be gone through with now.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
A new golden pyx will shine in the minster of Dinan if we come safely through with it.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
These last I broke through with a sudden jerk, and then regained the deck by the starboard shrouds.
(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
I believe I had a delirious idea of seizing the red-hot poker out of the fire, and running him through with it.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
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