be shot through with sth
to show or contain a particular emotion or quality in a noticeable way all the way through:
Her novel is shot through with a haunting lyricism.
The report was shot through with inaccuracies.
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shoot through
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
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- alive
- alive with sth idiom
- awash
- be a rich seam to mine idiom
- be riddled with sth idiom
- bristle
- burst
- congested
- crowded
- flooded
- heaping
- heaving
- heavy with sth idiom
- jam-packed
- riddled
- rife
- sardine
- saturation point
- seam
- seethe
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