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to- [to͞o, too, tə]Obs. completely, entirely, severely: used with verbs as an intensive [“to-broken” means “broken to pieces”]
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1.c. lest, from Old English the, a conjunction. a-c from Germanic *thē, from Indo-European instrumental form *tē.2. though, from Middle English though, though, from a Scandinavian source akin to Old Norse thō, though, from Germanic *thauh, “for all that.”13. Adverbial (originally accusative) form *tam. tandem, tantamount, from Latin tandem, at last, so much, and tantus, so much.* * *
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