everything

Meanings

1. 1
   pron

   All the things there are, or all the things being talked about.

   I checked the list again and everything is done.

2. 2
   pron

   The most important thing of all.

   In comedy, timing is everything.

3. 3
   pron

   All of one's effort or strength.

   It took everything in me to resist skipping work on my birthday.

Inherited from Middle English every thing; univerbation of every + thing.

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