a total lack of support
a total eclipse of the sun
He demanded total control of the project.
What was the total amount of the bill?
the total number of words
The country has a total population of about 100 million.
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First Known Use: 14th century
in the meaning defined at sense 1
See Words from the same yearcompleat, complete, comprehensive, entire, full, grand, intact, integral, perfect, plenary, whole;
unabridged, uncut, undiminished;
all-out, exhaustive, extensive, maximal;
full-blooded, full-blown, full-bore, full-fledged, full-on, full-out, full-scale;
a total of 25 square miles
that's the total for our wheat harvest this year
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1557
net;
grand total, the whole bit, the whole kit and caboodle, the whole nine yards, the whole shebang;
He carefully totaled the bill.
two and two total four
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1716
annihilate, cream, decimate, demolish, desolate, destroy, devastate, do in, extinguish, nuke, pull down, pulverize, raze, rub out, ruin, shatter, smash, tear down, vaporize, waste, wrack, wreck;
doctor, fix, mend, patch, recondition, repair, revamp;
assemble, fabricate, fashion, forge, form, frame, make, manufacture, mold, produce, shape;
bring about, constitute, establish, father, found, institute, organize;
beat, best, clobber, conquer, crush, defeat, drub, lick, master, overbear, overcome, overmatch, prevail (over), rout, scotch, skunk, subdue, surmount, thrash, trim, triumph (over), trounce, wallop, whip, win (against);
blast, blow up, break, cripple, damage, deface, deteriorate, disfigure, disintegrate, dissolve, dynamite, harm, impair, injure, mangle, mar, mutilate, spoil, vitiate;
erode, scour, sweep (away), wash out, wear (away);
dilapidate, disassemble, dismantle, gut, take down, unbuild, undo, unmake;
blot out, efface, eradicate, expunge, exterminate, extirpate, liquidate, obliterate, remove, root (out), snuff (out), stamp (out), wipe out;
despoil, havoc, loot, pillage, plunder, ravage, sack, trample, trash, vandalize;
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1601
: complete or absolute
: after everything or everyone is counted
: the number or amount of everything counted
: to produce (a total) when added together
: to add numbers together to find out the total
: to damage (something, such as a car) so badly that it is not worth repairing
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