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Definition of that way

1 : in the manner described or suggested
  • What makes her act that way?
2 : in or into the condition described or suggested
  • He is a very successful man and it is easy to see how he got that way.

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way play

  1. : a thoroughfare for travel or transportation from place to place

  2. : an opening for passage

  3. : the course traveled from one place to another : route

  1. : of, connected with, or constituting an intermediate point on a route

  1. : by a long distance : to a considerable degree or extent : far

  2. : by far : much

  3. : very

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