Standard Lemma guide
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
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apart, away, asunder, in pieces; expressing separation, negation, or intensity.
Parting: forming verbs that involve cleaving, breaking, or sundering.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: idiomatic, morpheme
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
prefix
apart, away, asunder, in pieces; expressing separation, negation, or intensity.
To do excessively.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: idiomatic, morpheme
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Antonyms: none provided
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apart, away, asunder, in pieces; expressing separation, negation, or intensity.
Completely.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: idiomatic, morpheme
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apart, away, asunder, in pieces; expressing separation, negation, or intensity.
Moving.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: idiomatic, morpheme
Synonyms: none provided
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Used in various ways to indicate temporality:
Current, the current form of the suffixed time. Forming nouns.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: morpheme
Synonyms: none provided
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Used in various ways to indicate temporality:
On (this) time, which is a fixed point in time. Forming adverbs.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: morpheme
Synonyms: none provided
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prefix
Used in various ways to indicate temporality:
During the suffixed time. Forming adverbs.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: morpheme
Synonyms: none provided
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prefix
Used in various ways to indicate temporality:
Of, as characteristic of the suffixed time period. Forming adverbs and adjectives.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: morpheme
Synonyms: none provided
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Used in various ways to indicate temporality:
At, at the suffixed time. Forming an unfixed point in time, rather than a duration.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: morpheme
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
prefix
Adding, additional in quantity.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: morpheme
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Toward in direction or location.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: morpheme
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
History
From Middle English to-, from Old English tō-, te- (“apart, away”), from Proto-West Germanic *tō-, *tuʀ-, *twiʀ-, from Proto-Germanic *twiz- (“apart, in two”), from Proto-Indo-European *dwís (“two-ways, in twain”).
From to.
