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TO IT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does to it mean? 

TO IT (adverb)
  The adverb TO IT has 1 sense:

1. to thatplay

  Familiarity information: TO IT used as an adverb is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


TO IT (adverb)


Sense 1

Meaning:

To that

Synonyms:

thereto; to it; to that

Context example:

with all the appurtenances fitting thereto


 Context examples 


I'm used to it, and use is everything.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

“Well, ma'am, what do you say to it? Can you spare me for an hour or two? Shall I go?”

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)

I am totally unequal to it.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

They ran to it and found it was the dwarf.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

Martin noticed, noticed the cause of it, told her how used he was becoming to it and that he did not care anyway.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

Neither address nor date is attached to it.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

However, I do not mean to say they have not a right to it.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)

The puzzle presented by this region is one thing that keeps astronomers coming back to it.

(Spitzer Studies a Stellar Playground With a Long History, NASA)

It made us aware that when it comes down to it, family is what matters," she said.

(Study Shows Chemotherapy Not Needed To Treat Many Breast Cancers, Carol Pearson/VOA)

Treatment that affects cells in the tumor and the area close to it.

(Local therapy, NCI Dictionary)



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