Definition of allover
:covering the whole extent or surface
- a sweater with an allover pattern
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a rug with an allover pattern
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Marc Jacobs Grand glitter platform sneakers, $275, Barneys New York These slip-ons have everything: a platform sole, allover glitter coating, a bow detail (like the one made popular by the aforementioned Fenty Puma line).
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In an effort to combat the damaging free radicals that lead to macular degeneration, Occugard's Blutein Protection supplement combines antioxidants like lutein, which helps to filter high-energy blue light, and Vitamin A to boost allover eye health.
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In 2017, the best swim trunks run the gamut from bold Baywatch-level shorts to those with allover patterns as bold as a Hawaiian shirt.
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In addition, some of the Pleasures pieces, including the checkerboard track pants ($100) and allover print camp shirts ($80), are currently available via online pre-order to ship by July 1.
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First Known Use of allover
1771
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Next time just haul your junk over to Haulover for your allover.
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Some button-downs read Europa in an allover print, while an orange hoodie had a poster-like design on its front that simply read The Power of Dreams.
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Weekday cropped the iconic Champion sweatshirt, Supreme covered it in allover print, and Vetements added tears and its signature droopy sleeves.
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The gathering reveals an ambitious, sometimes awkward painter devoted to working in the open air who felt compelled to respond to Jackson Pollock and the radical allover compositions of his abstract drip paintings.
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A painting of the port in Marly, flooded after the Seine burst its banks, unifies sky, water and a cafe into an allover undulation of pigment.
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First Known Use of allover
1808
Definition of all over
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:over the whole extent
- decorated all over with a flower pattern
2
:everywhere
- looked all over for the book
3
:in every respect :thoroughly
- she is her mother all over
Examples of all over in a Sentence
I've looked all over—even outside—and I can't find my other shoe.
his writing style is his mentor's all over
First Known Use of all over
13th century
all over Synonyms
Synonyms
everywhere, everyplace, far and wide, high and low, throughoutAntonyms
nowhereRelated Words
every which way; right and leftNear Antonyms
barely, hardly, just, kind of, marginally, minimally, scarcely, slightly, superficially; approximately, roughly, somewhatFirst Known Use of all over
1600
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