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everlasting<br />

adj. eternal, deathless, undying, immortal, infinite, timeless;<br />

never-ending, perpetual, constant, continual, continuous,<br />

permanent, unceasing, incessant, interminable, endless: They<br />

believed in everlasting punishment after death. I wish that dog<br />

would stop its everlasting barking.<br />

everyday adj. 1 daily, day-to-day, quotidian, diurnal; circadian: In<br />

our family a big breakfast was an everyday occurrence. 2<br />

commonplace, common, ordinary, customary, regular, habitual,<br />

routine, usual, run-of-the-mill, unexceptional, accustomed,<br />

conventional, familiar: She found herself unable to cope with<br />

everyday tasks that she used to take in her stride. 3 prosaic,<br />

mundane, dull, unimaginative, unexciting, mediocre, inferior:<br />

These are very everyday paintings of little value.<br />

everyone pron. everybody, all (and sundry), one and all, each and every<br />

one or person, the whole world, everybody under the sun, every<br />

Tom, Dick, and Harry: Everyone will want to come to my party.<br />

everything<br />

pron. all, all things, the aggregate, the (whole or entire)<br />

lot, the total, the entirety, Colloq the whole kit and caboodle,<br />

the whole shooting match, Chiefly US and Canadian the whole<br />

shebang: Everything was destroyed in the earthquake.<br />

everywhere<br />

adv. in all places, in or to each or every place or part, in<br />

every nook and cranny, high and low, far and wide, near and far;<br />

ubiquitously, universally, globally; throughout: She went<br />

everywhere searching for clues. The smell of jasmine was<br />

everywhere. Errors occur everywhere in his writings.<br />

evict v. oust, dislodge, turn out (of house and home), expel, eject,<br />

remove, dispossess, put out, Law disseise or disseize, Colloq<br />

toss or throw or kick or boot out, Brit turf out: The landlord<br />

evicted us for non-payment of rent.<br />

eviction n. ouster, dispossession, dislodgement, expulsion, ejection,<br />

removal, Law disseisin or disseizin, Colloq the boot: His<br />

eviction from the club was for refusing to wear a tie.

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