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all

 
/ɔl/ adv [not gradable]

Definition

all over everywhere in a place or area: Soon the news was all over town. There were these tiny little blue flowers growing all over.
(Definition of all adv from the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)

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