through and through

1. 1.

   throughout the entire extent

   “got soaked through in the rain”

   “I'm frozen through”

   “a letter shot through with the writer's personality”

   “knew him through and through”

   “boards rotten through and through”

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Questions about through and through

What does through and through mean?

through and through means "throughout the entire extent".

What is another word for through and through?

Close synonyms include through. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is through and through a common word?

through and through is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.