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AWL/ɔːl/

The whole amount or extent of something, with nothing left out.

The child pours all the marbles into the bowl, leaving the jar empty.

A child pours every marble from a jar into a bowl, leaving the jar empty and the whole amount gathered together.

Etymology

Old English eall already expressed the whole quantity, so the modern sense preserves its central meaning. Its ancestry beyond the Germanic languages is uncertain.

In context

Rory Stewart2:53

All of this is wrong. Every one of those statements is wrong.

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TheKapers8310:38

until you can verify that all the conditions have been met.

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More examples

We ate all the bread.
The tickets are all gone.
She works all day.

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