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11 PREP If something happens or exists through a period of time, it happens or exists from the beginning until the end. □  She kept quiet all through breakfast. ● ADV [ADV after v] Through is also an adverb. □  We've got a tough programme, hard work right through to the summer.

12 PREP If something happens from a particular period of time through another, it starts at the first period and continues until the end of the second period. [AM ] □  …open Monday through Sunday from 7:00 am to 10:00 pm. in BRIT, use to 13 PREP If you go through a particular experience or event, you experience it, and if you behave in a particular way through it, you behave in that way while it is happening. □  Men go through a change of life emotionally just like women.

14 ADJ [v-link ADJ ] If you are through with something or if it is through , you have finished doing it and will never do it again. If you are through with someone, you do not want to have anything to do with them again. □ [+ with ] I'm through with the explaining.

15 PREP You use through in expressions such as half-way through and all the way through to indicate to what extent an action or task is completed. □  A competitor collapsed half-way through the marathon. ● ADV [n ADV ] Through is also an adverb. □  Stir the meat about until it turns white all the way through.

16 PREP If something happens because of something else, you can say that it happens through it. □  They are understood to have retired through age or ill health.

17 PREP You use through when stating the means by which a particular thing is achieved. □  Those who seek to grab power through violence deserve punishment.

18 PREP If you do something through someone else, they take the necessary action for you. □  Do I need to go through my doctor or can I make an appointment direct?

19 ADV [ADV after v] If something such as a proposal or idea goes through , it is accepted by people in authority and is made legal or official. □  It is possible that the present Governor General will be made interim President, if the proposals go through. ● PREP Through is also a preposition. □  They want to get the plan through Congress as quickly as possible.

20 PREP If someone gets through an examination or a round of a competition, they succeed or win. □  She was bright, learned languages quickly, and sailed through her exams. ● ADV [ADV after v] Through is also an adverb. □  Nigeria also go through from that group.

21 ADV [ADV after v] When you get through while making a phone call, the call is connected and you can speak to the person you are phoning. □  He may find the line cut on the phone so that he can't get through.

22 PREP If you look or go through a lot of things, you look at them or deal with them one after the other. □  Let's go through the numbers together and see if a workable deal is possible.

23 PREP If you read through something, you read it from beginning to end. □  She read through pages and pages of the music I had brought her. ● ADV [ADV after v] Through is also an adverb. □  He read the article straight through.

24 ADJ [ADJ n] A through train goes directly to a particular place, so that the people who want to go there do not have to change trains. □  …Britain's longest through train journey, 685 miles.

25 ADV [adj ADV ] If you say that someone or something is wet through , you are emphasizing how wet they are. [EMPHASIS ] □  I returned to the inn cold and wet, soaked through by the drizzling rain.