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/ˈθʌɹəˌɡəʊɪŋ/
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/ˈθʌɹəˌɡoʊɪŋ/
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ˈθʌɹəˌɡəʊɪŋ
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ˈθʌɹəˌɡoʊɪŋ
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- US
Adjective
With great attention to detail; complete, thorough.
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He did a thoroughgoing job of cleaning up the broken glass.
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It must be reiterated, as, for the purpose of these Memoranda, the deep lesson of History and Time, that all else in the contributions of a nation or age, through its politics, materials, heroic personalities, military eclat, &c., remains crude, and defers, in any close and thorough-going estimate, until vitalized by national, original archetypes in literature.
I am myself a thoroughgoing individualist, writing for those who are, like myself, irrevocably committed to the modern experiment.
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Mr. Prayter was a thorough-going cleric in the way of eating. He ate till there was nothing left.
1967, Time, "Marijuana is Still Illegal," 29 December, 1967, After six months of preparation, Lawyer Joseph Oteri began in September the most thoroughgoing legal attack on antimarijuana laws ever made.
Adjective
performed comprehensively and completely; not superficial or partial
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an exhaustive study
made a thorough search
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thoroughgoing research
without qualification; used informally as (often pejorative) intensifiers
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an arrant fool
a complete coward
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a consummate fool
a double-dyed villain
gross negligence
a perfect idiot
pure folly
what a sodding mess
stark staring mad
a thorough nuisance
a thoroughgoing villain
utter nonsense
the unadulterated truth