English

all to

completely, totally.

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    Origin

    From expressions such as all to break, all to split, all to broken, formed from the incorrect division of words containing the prefix to- (e.g. all tobreak, all tosplit, all tobroken). Equivalent to all + to-.

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    • surface analysisEnglishall “Every individual or anything of the given class, with no exceptions (the noun or noun phrase denoti…”
    • prefixEnglishto- “Parting: forming verbs that involve cleaving, breaking, or sundering.”
      • inheritedMiddle Englishto-
        • inheritedOld Englishtō-
      • derivedEnglishto “A particle used for marking the following verb as an infinitive.”
        • inheritedMiddle Englishto
        • borrowedHindiतो

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