everything
/ˈɛv(ə)ɹiˌθɪŋ/ pronoun A1- All the things under discussion. · I checked the list again and everything is done.· Thank you for everything you've done for us.
- Many or most things. · A: What do you want to do at the amusement park? B: Everything!· I did everything today – washed the dishes, cut the lawn, did the laundry.
- A state of well-being (from all parts of the whole). · Everything failed, didn't it?· She wasn't feeling well this morning but now everything is fine.
- Considerable effort. · It took everything in me to resist the temptation to skip work on my birthday.
- The most important thing.
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So she told him all about Kansas, and how gray everything was there, and how the cyclone had carried her to this queer Land of Oz.
Once the house had been painted, but the sun blistered the paint and the rains washed it away, and now the house was as dull and gray as everything else.
Then I thought, as the country was so green and beautiful, I would call it the Emerald City; and to make the name fit better I put green spectacles on all the people, so that everything they saw was green.”
“But isn’t everything here green?” asked Dorothy.
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