through

13. PREP

If you go through a particular experience or event, you experience it, and if you behave in a particular way through it, you behave in that way while it is happening.

• Men go through a change of life emotionally just like women.

16. PREP

If something happens because of something else, you can say that it happens through it.

• They are understood to have retired through age or ill health.

17. PREP

You use through when stating the means by which a particular thing is achieved.

• Those who seek to grab power through violence deserve punishment.

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