thorough /thurˈə, also (N American) thurˈō/

1. Passing or carried through, or to the end
2. Complete
3. Entire
4. Out-and-out
5. (of a person) assiduous and scrupulous in completing work and attending to every detail
6. (of a task, etc) done with great care and attention to detail

Through

1. That which goes through, a passage
2. (also with cap) the blind and obstinately tyrannical policy of Strafford and Laud in administering civil and ecclesiastical affairs without regard to opposite convictions (historical)

thorˈoughly adverb

thorˈoughness noun

thorough bass noun (music)

1. (esp in baroque music) a bass part underlying a piece, usu with figures to indicate the chords, and usu played on a keyboard instrument
2. (loosely) harmony
3. A deep bass (non-standard)

thorˈoughbrace noun (US)

1. A leather band supporting the body of certain types of carriage
2. A stagecoach

thorˈoughbraced adjective

thorˈoughbred adjective

1. Thoroughly or completely bred or trained
2. (of a horse) bred from a dam and sire of the best blood, and having the qualities supposed to depend on such breeding
3. Pure-bred
4. (with cap) relating to the Thoroughbred breed of horses
5. High-spirited

noun

1. An animal (esp a horse) of pure blood
2. (with cap) a racehorse of a breed descended from any of three Arabian stallions of the early 18c whose ideal gait is the gallop

thorˈoughfare noun

1. A passage or way through
2. A road open at both ends
3. A public way or street
4. Right of passing through

thorˈoughgoing adjective

1. Going through or to the end
2. Going all lengths
3. Complete
4. Out-and-out

thorˈoughgoingly adverb

thorˈoughgoingness noun

thorˈough-paced adjective

1. (of a horse) thoroughly or perfectly trained in all paces
2. Complete

thorˈoughpin noun (veterinary medicine)

Inflammation of a horse's hock joint

thorˈoughwax or thorˈow-wax noun

The plant hare's-ear, from the stem seeming to wax (ie grow) through the leaves

post-vintage thoroughbred

A car built between 1 January 1931 and 31 December 1941

• unsteadying
• unsteel
• unsteeled
• unsteeling
• unsteels
• unstep
• unstepped
• unstepping
• unsteps
• unstercorated
• unsterile
• unsterilised
• unsterilized
• unstick
• unsticking
• unsticks
• unstifled
• unstigmatised
• unstigmatized
• unstilled
• unstimulated
• unstinted
• unstinting
• unstirred
• unstitch