altogether
/ɔl.tuˈɡɛð.ɚ/ adverb B1- Completely, wholly, or without exception. · Police did not seem altogether satisfied with my alibi.
- On the whole; with everything considered. · Altogether, I'm sorry it happened.
- With everything included. · Altogether, your bill comes to $6.99.
- An intensifier: without doubt, clearly. · It was a great game altogether.· That took altogether too much time.
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“I must be growing small again.” She got up and went to the table to measure herself by it, and found that, as nearly as she could guess, she was now about two feet high, and was going on shrinking rapidly: she soon found out that the cause of this was the fan she was holding, and she dropped it hastily, just in time to avoid shrinking away altogether.
And so she went on, taking first one side and then the other, and making quite a conversation of it altogether; but after a few minutes she heard a voice outside, and stopped to listen.
The poor little thing was snorting like a steam-engine when she caught it, and kept doubling itself up and straightening itself out again, so that altogether, for the first minute or two, it was as much as she could do to hold it.
There could be no doubt that it had a _very_ turn-up nose, much more like a snout than a real nose; also its eyes were getting extremely small for a baby: altogether Alice did not like the look of the thing at all.
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