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Synonyms for all-out
Synonyms: Adjective
absolute, arrant, blank, blooming [chiefly British], bodacious [Southern & Midland], categorical (also categoric), clean, complete, consummate, cotton-picking, crashing, damn, damned, dead, deadly, definite, downright, dreadful, fair, flat, flat-out, out-and-out, outright, perfect, plumb, profound, pure, rank, regular, sheer, simple, stark, stone, straight-out, thorough, thoroughgoing, total, unadulterated, unalloyed, unconditional, unmitigated, unqualified, utter, very
Synonyms: Adverb
full blast, full tilt, tooth and nail
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Examples of all-out in a Sentence
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went all out for her New Year's Eve party—she even had fireworks!Recent Examples on the Web: Adverb
At Nibley Park on East Mountain Avenue, board members of the Rossmoyne Mountain Homeowners Assn. went all out, bringing in the La Panini Grill truck, an ice cream vendor, movies and opportunity drawings for gift certificates to local restaurants. — Glendale News-Press, "On the Town: National Night Out brings Glendale community together," 12 Aug. 2019 Nobody has been more eager to go all out since training camp started than Woods. — Ben Bolch, Los Angeles Times, "UCLA’s Josh Woods excited to return after injuries left him battling ‘dark days’," 12 Aug. 2019 And all out of salt especially on the most valuable voter group in our -- in fact, the highest performing voter group in our coalition, which is black women. — NBC News, "Democratic debate transcript: July 31, 2019," 1 Aug. 2019 Players can go all out and dive towards the stands without risk of injury to themselves or the fans. — Andrew Joseph, For The Win, "The White Sox's expanded netting saved fans from Jeff McNeil's leaping catch," 1 Aug. 2019 Richaun Holmes, Troy Daniels, Jimmer Fredette, Jamal Crawford and Dragan Bender are all out, too. — Greg Moore, azcentral, "Phoenix Suns' summer upheaval wasn't splashy, but was constructive," 3 July 2019 Making good on a pledge by Gov. Gavin Newsom to finish the process begun in 2012, state prison officials have wrapped up the contracts with all out-of-state prisons. — John Myers, latimes.com, "California ends its long, costly shift of prisoners to other states," 30 June 2019 The veteran Rossi went all out for one high-speed lap in qualifying for Sunday’s REV Group Grand Prix and ended up second. — Dave Kallmann, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, "Colton Herta is young and smooth and on the pole for IndyCar at Road America," 22 June 2019 Advertising Rolapp said the league is talking to DIRECTV about expanding the digital presence for its popular Sunday Ticket option that makes available all out-of-market games. — Barry Wilner, The Seattle Times, "Honoring rivalries: Packers-Bears to open 2019 NFL schedule," 26 Mar. 2019These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'all-out.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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