to the hilt

Speech parts

1. to the hilt - Adverb

2. to the hilt - Phrase

Meaning

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Synonyms

completely fully beyond entirely exactly totally perfectly altogether absolutely thoroughly wholly outright utterly categorically downright

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Antonyms

half comparatively slightly somewhat partly moderately

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Examples

What is going on in America is extreme. The youth cult, they worship youth so much it's almost paranoid. And LA is the Mecca of it all; they're taking it to the hilt. Billie Joe Armstrong

We shall play every game to the hilt with every ounce of fiber we have in our bodies. Vince Lombardi

True country music is honesty, sincerity, and real life to the hilt. Garth Brooks

Pick the day. Enjoy it - to the hilt. The day as it comes. People as they come... The past, I think, has helped me appreciate the present - and I don't want to spoil any of it by fretting about the future. Audrey Hepburn

If you are joyful, whatever you do you will do it to the hilt because you have nothing to hold back, nothing to fear, isn't it? Jaggi Vasudev

Never be afraid to meet to the hilt the demand of either work, or friendship - two of life's major assets. Eleanor Robson Belmont

Words in the phrase

to the hilt

Close letter words and terms

to the gunwales to the harm of to the highest degree to the injury of to the land of no return to the last