everything

All the things under discussion.

Pronoun

All the things under discussion.
- I checked the list again and everything is done.
- Thank you for everything you've done for us.
- I told him about everything I could think of; and what I couldn't think of he did. He asked about six questions during my yarn, but every question had a point to it. At the end he bowed and thanked me once more. As a...
Many or most things.
- A: What do you want to do at the amusement park? B: Everything!
- I did everything today – washed the dishes, cut the lawn, did the laundry.
- Then, I was sent to a great, cold, bare, school of big boys; where everything to eat and wear was thick and clumpy, without being enough; […] - 1859 December 13, Charles Dickens, “The Ghost in Master B’s Room”, in...
A state of well-being (from all parts of the whole).
- Everything failed, didn't it?
- She wasn't feeling well this morning but now everything is fine.
- Since the company lost its best customer everything has gotten worse.
Considerable effort.
- It took everything in me to resist the temptation to skip work on my birthday.
The most important thing.
- I can't believe I made it in time – timing is everything!

Inherited from Middle English every thing; univerbation of every + thing.

Used as a placeholder verb to encapsulate a set of related verbs or any action.
- ‘Hardly. We’re screened by every shrink in the kingdom. We're printed, weighed, photographed, everythinged. Selection for security takes a lifetime—one of our sayings,’ she added modestly. - 1990, Jonathan Gash, The...
- “ ‘You're right tonight, Boss Man,’ I said. ‘They’re laying it on us.’ “They outswung us, they out-everythinged us. - 2001, Stanley Dance, The World of Swing, Da Capo Press, page 71:
- Charlie does, too. After being adopted by Joan, after having his matted coat shaved bare, after being dewormed and de-everythinged after being loved and fed and loved some more, Charlie has turned into a brand-new dog....