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adverb
in exactly the same words; verbatim.
one word at a time, without regard for the sense of the whole: She translated the book word for word.
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The rainy weather could not ________ my elated spirits on my graduation day.
Origin of word for word
Middle English word dating back to 1350–1400
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word for word
Exactly as written or spoken, as in That was the forecast, word for word. Chaucer used this idiom in the late 1300s.
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