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all-embracing

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English 5++朗文当代英语 5++LDOCE 5++朗文 5++ˌall-emˈbracing adjective  ALL/EVERYTHINGIN GENERALincluding everyone or everything 总括的;包罗万象的 an all-embracing vision of society 对社会的全面看法
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all-embracingIt was all-embracing and claimed that it alone spoke authoritatively for the people.My own study below is no exception and I would not claim an all-embracing explanation of advanced capitalist society from it.There is no room for their separate existence in the all-embracing picture of the cosmos.The prison governor now has all-embracing powers to deal with any situation in the way he thinks fit.Physicists are searching for one all-embracing theory that covers matter, energy, radiation, and gravity.an all-embracing theoryIt represents a radical and all-embracing transfer of allegiance.
ˌall-emˈbracing adjectiveChineseSyllable
everyone everything or including Corpus


all-embracing
ˌall-emˈbracing adjective
including everyone or everything:
    an all-embracing vision of society


all-embrac·ingBrE /ˌɔːl ɪmˈbreɪsɪŋ/ 🔊NAmE /ˌɔːl ɪmˈbreɪsɪŋ/ 🔊 adjective (formal) including everything 无所不包的;概括一切的