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all-out
 
ADJECTIVE:1. Covering all aspects with painstaking accuracy: complete, exhaustive, full-dress, intensive, thorough, thoroughgoing, thoroughpaced. See BIG, CAREFUL. 2. Completely such, without qualification or exception: absolute, arrant, complete, consummate, crashing, damned, dead, downright, flat, out-and-out, outright, perfect, plain, pure, sheer2, thorough, thoroughgoing, total, unbounded, unequivocal, unlimited, unmitigated, unqualified, unrelieved, unreserved, utter2. Informal : flat-out, positive. Chiefly British : blooming. See BIG, LIMITED.
 
 
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