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GO (goes, gone, went)
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, gone , went Dictionary entry overview: What does go mean?
• GO (noun)
The noun GO has 4 senses:
1. a time period for working (after which you will be relieved by someone else)
2. street names for methylenedioxymethamphetamine
3. a usually brief attempt
4. a board game for two players who place counters on a grid; the object is to surround and so capture the opponent's counters
Familiarity information: GO used as a noun is uncommon.
• GO (adjective)
The adjective GO has 1 sense:
1. functioning correctly and ready for action
Familiarity information: GO used as an adjective is very rare.
• GO (verb)
The verb GO has 30 senses:
1. change location; move, travel, or proceed, also metaphorically
2. follow a procedure or take a course
3. move away from a place into another direction
4. enter or assume a certain state or condition
5. be awarded; be allotted
6. have a particular form
7. stretch out over a distance, space, time, or scope; run or extend between two points or beyond a certain point
8. follow a certain course
9. be abolished or discarded
10. be or continue to be in a certain condition
11. make a certain noise or sound
12. perform as expected when applied
13. to be spent or finished
14. progress by being changed
15. continue to live and avoid dying
16. pass, fare, or elapse; of a certain state of affairs or action
17. pass from physical life and lose all bodily attributes and functions necessary to sustain life
18. be in the right place or situation
19. be ranked or compare
20. begin or set in motion
21. have a turn; make one's move in a game
22. be contained in
23. be sounded, played, or expressed
24. blend or harmonize
25. lead, extend, or afford access
26. be the right size or shape; fit correctly or as desired
27. go through in search of something; search through someone's belongings in an unauthorized way
28. be spent
29. give support (to) or make a choice (of) one out of a group or number
30. stop operating or functioning
Familiarity information: GO used as a verb is very familiar.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A time period for working (after which you will be relieved by someone else)
Classified under:
Nouns denoting time and temporal relations
Synonyms:
Context example:
a spell of work
Hypernyms ("go" is a kind of...):
duty period; shift; work shift (the time period during which you are at work)
Derivation:
go (have a turn; make one's move in a game)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Street names for methylenedioxymethamphetamine
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Synonyms:
Adam; cristal; disco biscuit; ecstasy; go; hug drug; X; XTC
Hypernyms ("go" is a kind of...):
MDMA; methylenedioxymethamphetamine (a stimulant drug that is chemically related to mescaline and amphetamine and is used illicitly for its euphoric and hallucinogenic effects; it was formerly used in psychotherapy but in 1985 it was declared illegal in the United States)
Sense 3
Meaning:
A usually brief attempt
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Synonyms:
crack; fling; go; offer; pass; whirl
Context example:
I gave it a whirl
Hypernyms ("go" is a kind of...):
attempt; effort; endeavor; endeavour; try (earnest and conscientious activity intended to do or accomplish something)
Sense 4
Meaning:
A board game for two players who place counters on a grid; the object is to surround and so capture the opponent's counters
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Synonyms:
go; go game
Hypernyms ("go" is a kind of...):
board game (a game played on a specially designed board)
Domain region:
Japan; Nihon; Nippon (a constitutional monarchy occupying the Japanese Archipelago; a world leader in electronics and automobile manufacture and ship building)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Functioning correctly and ready for action
Context example:
all systems are go
Similar:
a-ok; a-okay (in perfect condition or order)
Antonym:
no-go (not functioning properly or in suitable condition for proceeding)
| Conjugation: |
... he / she / it goes Past simple: went
Past participle: gone
-ing form: going
Sense 1
Meaning:
Change location; move, travel, or proceed, also metaphorically
Classified under:
Verbs of walking, flying, swimming
Synonyms:
Context example:
news travelled fast
Verb group:
displace; move (cause to move or shift into a new position or place, both in a concrete and in an abstract sense)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "go"):
circulate; go around; spread (become widely known and passed on)
carry (cover a certain distance or advance beyond)
ease (move gently or carefully)
whish (move with a whishing sound)
float (move lightly, as if suspended)
swap (move (a piece of a program) into memory, in computer science)
seek (go to or towards)
whine (move with a whining sound)
fly (be dispersed or disseminated)
ride (move like a floating object)
come (cover a certain distance)
ghost (move like a ghost)
betake oneself (displace oneself; go from one location to another)
travel (undergo transportation as in a vehicle)
wend (direct one's course or way)
do (travel or traverse (a distance))
raft (travel by raft in water)
get about; get around (move around; move from place to place)
repair; resort (move, travel, or proceed toward some place)
cruise (travel at a moderate speed)
journey; travel (travel upon or across)
come; come up (move toward, travel toward something or somebody or approach something or somebody)
round (wind around; move along a circular course)
trundle (move heavily)
push (move strenuously and with effort)
travel purposefully (travel volitionally and in a certain direction with a certain goal)
swing (change direction with a swinging motion; turn)
cast; drift; ramble; range; roam; roll; rove; stray; swan; tramp; vagabond; wander (move about aimlessly or without any destination, often in search of food or employment)
take the air; walk (take a walk; go for a walk; walk for pleasure)
meander; thread; wander; weave; wind (to move or cause to move in a sinuous, spiral, or circular course)
forge; spirt; spurt (move or act with a sudden increase in speed or energy)
crawl; creep (move slowly; in the case of people or animals with the body near the ground)
scramble (to move hurriedly)
slide; slither (to pass or move unobtrusively or smoothly)
roll; wheel (move along on or as if on wheels or a wheeled vehicle)
glide (move smoothly and effortlessly)
bounce; jounce (move up and down repeatedly)
breeze (to proceed quickly and easily)
be adrift; blow; drift; float (be in motion due to some air or water current)
play (move or seem to move quickly, lightly, or irregularly)
float; swim (be afloat either on or below a liquid surface and not sink to the bottom)
swim (move as if gliding through water)
walk (use one's feet to advance; advance by steps)
move around; turn (pass to the other side of)
circle (travel around something)
slice into; slice through (move through a body or an object with a slicing motion)
drift; err; stray (wander from a direct course or at random)
run (travel rapidly, by any (unspecified) means)
step (shift or move by taking a step)
drive; motor (travel or be transported in a vehicle)
automobile (travel in an automobile)
ski (move along on skis)
fly; wing (travel through the air; be airborne)
steam; steamer (travel by means of steam power)
tram (travel by tram)
taxi (travel slowly)
ferry (travel by ferry)
caravan (travel in a caravan)
ride; sit (sit and travel on the back of animal, usually while controlling its motions)
prance (spring forward on the hind legs)
swim (travel through water)
arise; come up; go up; lift; move up; rise; uprise (move upward)
come down; descend; fall; go down (move downward and lower, but not necessarily all the way)
fall (descend in free fall under the influence of gravity)
crank; zigzag (travel along a zigzag path)
follow; travel along (travel along a certain course)
advance; go on; march on; move on; pass on; progress (move forward, also in the metaphorical sense)
draw back; move back; pull away; pull back; recede; retire; retreat; withdraw (pull back or move away or backward)
retrograde (move in a direction contrary to the usual one)
continue; go forward; proceed (move ahead; travel onward in time or space)
back (travel backward)
pan (make a sweeping movement)
follow (to travel behind, go after, come after)
lead; precede (move ahead (of others) in time or space)
follow; pursue (follow in or as if in pursuit)
return (go or come back to place, condition, or activity where one has been before)
derail; jump (run off or leave the rails)
flock (move as a crowd or in a group)
accompany (go or travel along with)
billow (move with great difficulty)
circulate (move around freely from person to person or from place to place)
circle (move in a circular path above (someone or something))
angle (move or proceed at an angle)
pass (go across or through)
go by; go past; pass; pass by; surpass; travel by (move past)
hurry; speed; travel rapidly; zip (move very fast)
speed (travel at an excessive or illegal velocity)
zoom (move with a low humming noise)
drive (move by being propelled by a force)
belt along; bucket along; cannonball along; hasten; hie; hotfoot; pelt along; race; rush; rush along; speed; step on it (move hurridly)
shack; trail (move, proceed, or walk draggingly or slowly)
shuttle (travel back and forth between two points)
hiss; whoosh (move with a whooshing sound)
whisk (move quickly and nimbly)
career (move headlong at high speed)
circuit (make a circuit)
lance (move quickly, as if by cutting one's way)
go around; outflank (go around the flank of (an opposing army))
propagate (travel through the air)
draw (move or go steadily or gradually)
change; transfer (change from one vehicle or transportation line to another)
swash (make violent, noisy movements)
pace (go at a pace)
step; tread (put down or press the foot, place the foot)
step (move with one's feet in a specific manner)
hurtle (move with or as if with a rushing sound)
retreat (move away, as for privacy)
whistle (move with, or as with, a whistling sound)
island hop (travel from one island to the next)
plough; plow (move in a way resembling that of a plow cutting into or going through the soil)
lurch (move slowly and unsteadily)
sift (move as if through a sieve)
fall (move in a specified direction)
drag (move slowly and as if with great effort)
run (move about freely and without restraint, or act as if running around in an uncontrolled way)
bang (move noisily)
precess (move in a gyrating fashion)
move around; travel (travel from place to place, as for the purpose of finding work, preaching, or acting as a judge)
ride (sit on and control a vehicle)
snowshoe (travel on snowshoes)
beetle (fly or go in a manner resembling a beetle)
Sentence frames:
Something ----s
Somebody ----s
Something is ----ing PP
Somebody ----s PP
Sentence example:
The children go to the playground
Also:
go on (move forward, also in the metaphorical sense)
go up (move upward)
go up (go upward with gradual or continuous progress)
go under (go under)
go out (go out of fashion; become unfashionable)
go on (continue talking)
go off (run away; usually includes taking something or somebody along)
go down (go under)
go down (move downward and lower, but not necessarily all the way)
go down (disappear beyond the horizon)
go by (pass by)
go by (move past)
go around (become widely known and passed on)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Follow a procedure or take a course
Classified under:
Verbs of political and social activities and events
Synonyms:
Context example:
Messages must go through diplomatic channels
Hypernyms (to "go" is one way to...):
act; move (perform an action, or work out or perform (an action))
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "go"):
work (proceed towards a goal or along a path or through an activity)
embark; venture (proceed somewhere despite the risk of possible dangers)
steamroll; steamroller (proceed with great force)
Sentence frames:
Something is ----ing PP
Something ----s Adjective/Noun
Somebody ----s Adjective
Somebody ----s PP
Sense 3
Meaning:
Move away from a place into another direction
Classified under:
Verbs of walking, flying, swimming
Synonyms:
Context example:
The train departs at noon
Hypernyms (to "go" is one way to...):
exit; get out; go out; leave (move out of or depart from)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "go"):
blow; shove along; shove off (leave; informal or rude)
Sentence frames:
Something ----s
Somebody ----s
Something is ----ing PP
Somebody ----s PP
Antonym:
come (move toward, travel toward something or somebody or approach something or somebody)
Derivation:
goer (someone who leaves)
going (the act of departing)
Sense 4
Meaning:
Enter or assume a certain state or condition
Classified under:
Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.
Synonyms:
Context example:
Get going!
Hypernyms (to "go" is one way to...):
change state; turn (undergo a transformation or a change of position or action)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "go"):
sober; sober up (become sober after excessive alcohol consumption)
sober; sober up (become more realistic)
work (arrive at a certain condition through repeated motion)
take effect (go into effect or become effective or operative)
run (change from one state to another)
take (be seized or affected in a specified way)
break (come into being)
settle (become resolved, fixed, established, or quiet)
Sentence frames:
Something is ----ing PP
Something ----s Adjective/Noun
Somebody ----s Adjective
Somebody ----s PP
Sentence example:
Water and oil go into the bowl
Sense 5
Meaning:
Be awarded; be allotted
Classified under:
Verbs of being, having, spatial relations
Context example:
Her money went on clothes
Sentence frames:
Something ----s somebody
Something ----s something
Sense 6
Meaning:
Have a particular form
Classified under:
Verbs of being, having, spatial relations
Synonyms:
go; run
Context example:
as the saying goes...
Hypernyms (to "go" is one way to...):
be (have the quality of being; (copula, used with an adjective or a predicate noun))
Sentence frame:
Something ----s
Sense 7
Meaning:
Stretch out over a distance, space, time, or scope; run or extend between two points or beyond a certain point
Classified under:
Verbs of being, having, spatial relations
Synonyms:
Context example:
The facts extend beyond a consideration of her personal assets
Hypernyms (to "go" is one way to...):
be (occupy a certain position or area; be somewhere)
Verb group:
range; run (change or be different within limits)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "go"):
come (extend or reach)
radiate; ray (extend or spread outward from a center or focus or inward towards a center)
go deep; go far (extend in importance or range)
underrun (run or pass below)
Sentence frame:
Something is ----ing PP
Sense 8
Meaning:
Follow a certain course
Classified under:
Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.
Synonyms:
go; proceed
Context example:
how did your interview go?
Hypernyms (to "go" is one way to...):
come about; fall out; go on; hap; happen; occur; pass; pass off; take place (come to pass)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "go"):
drag; drag on; drag out (proceed for an extended period of time)
come; do; fare; get along; make out (proceed or get along)
Sentence frames:
Something ----s
Something ----s Adjective/Noun
Sense 9
Meaning:
Be abolished or discarded
Classified under:
Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.
Context example:
These luxuries all had to go under the Khmer Rouge
Hypernyms (to "go" is one way to...):
disappear; go away; vanish (get lost, as without warning or explanation)
Sentence frame:
Something ----s
Sense 10
Meaning:
Be or continue to be in a certain condition
Classified under:
Verbs of being, having, spatial relations
Context example:
The children went hungry that day
Hypernyms (to "go" is one way to...):
be (have the quality of being; (copula, used with an adjective or a predicate noun))
Sentence frames:
Something ----s Adjective/Noun
Somebody ----s Adjective
Sense 11
Meaning:
Make a certain noise or sound
Classified under:
Verbs of seeing, hearing, feeling
Synonyms:
go; sound
Context example:
The gun went 'bang'
Hypernyms (to "go" is one way to...):
cause to be perceived (have perceptible qualities)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "go"):
snarl (make a snarling noise or move with a snarling noise)
sing; whistle (make a whining, ringing, or whistling sound)
blow (make a sound as if blown)
ting (make a light, metallic sound; go 'ting')
make noise; noise; resound (emit a noise)
splat (give off the sound of a bullet flattening on impact)
twang (sound with a twang)
clang; clangor (make a loud noise)
clank (make a clank)
clangor; clangour (make a loud resonant noise)
boom; boom out (make a deep hollow sound)
beat; drum; thrum (make a rhythmic sound)
rattle (make short successive sounds)
beat; tick; ticktack; ticktock (make a sound like a clock or a timer)
resonate; vibrate (sound with resonance)
crash (make a sudden loud sound)
tweet; twirp (make a weak, chirping sound)
skirl (make a shrill, wailing sound)
gurgle (make sounds similar to gurgling water)
glug (make a gurgling sound as of liquid issuing from a bottle)
blow (sound by having air expelled through a tube)
whish (make a sibilant sound)
guggle (make a sound like a liquid that is being poured from a bottle)
ping (make a short high-pitched sound)
knock; ping; pink (sound like a car engine that is firing too early)
trump (produce a sound as if from a trumpet)
squelch (make a sucking sound)
chug (make a dull, explosive sound)
peal; ring (sound loudly and sonorously)
bombilate; bombinate; buzz (make a buzzing sound)
chime (emit a sound)
rustle (make a dry crackling sound)
crack; snap (make a sharp sound)
crack (make a very sharp explosive sound)
beep; blare; claxon; honk; toot (make a loud noise)
whistle (make whistling sounds)
echo; resound; reverberate; ring (ring or echo with sound)
thud; thump (make a dull sound)
clop; clump; clunk; plunk (make or move along with a sound as of a horse's hooves striking the ground)
patter; pitter-patter (make light, rapid and repeated sounds)
knock; pink; rap; tap (make light, repeated taps on a surface)
click; tick (make a clicking or ticking sound)
chatter; click (click repeatedly or uncontrollably)
pop (make a sharp explosive noise)
chink; clink; tink; tinkle (make or emit a high sound)
slosh; slush; splash; splosh (make a splashing sound)
hum; thrum (sound with a monotonous hum)
bleep (emit a single short high-pitched signal)
grumble; rumble (make a low noise)
boom; din (make a resonant sound, like artillery)
bang (to produce a sharp often metallic explosive or percussive sound)
babble; bubble; burble; guggle; gurgle; ripple (flow in an irregular current with a bubbling noise)
lap; swish; swoosh; swosh (move with or cause to move with a whistling or hissing sound)
drone (make a monotonous low dull sound)
birr; purr; whir; whirr; whiz; whizz (make a soft swishing sound)
roll (emit, produce, or utter with a deep prolonged reverberating sound)
Sentence frames:
Something ----s
Somebody ----s
Something ----s Adjective/Noun
Somebody ----s Adjective
Sense 12
Meaning:
Perform as expected when applied
Classified under:
Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging
Synonyms:
function; go; operate; run; work
Context example:
This old radio doesn't work anymore
Verb group:
run (be operating, running or functioning)
work (operate in or through)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "go"):
double (do double duty; serve two purposes or have two functions)
roll (begin operating or running)
run (be operating, running or functioning)
cut (function as a cutting instrument)
serve; service (be used by; as of a utility)
Sentence frame:
Something ----s
Sentence example:
These cars won't go
Sense 13
Meaning:
To be spent or finished
Classified under:
Verbs of eating and drinking
Synonyms:
Context example:
Gas is running low at the gas stations in the Midwest
Hypernyms (to "go" is one way to...):
cease; end; finish; stop; terminate (have an end, in a temporal, spatial, or quantitative sense; either spatial or metaphorical)
Verb group:
go (be spent)
Sentence frame:
Something ----s
Sense 14
Meaning:
Progress by being changed
Classified under:
Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.
Synonyms:
Context example:
run through your presentation before the meeting
Hypernyms (to "go" is one way to...):
change (undergo a change; become different in essence; losing one's or its original nature)
Sentence frames:
Something is ----ing PP
Somebody ----s PP
Sense 15
Meaning:
Continue to live and avoid dying
Classified under:
Verbs of being, having, spatial relations
Synonyms:
endure; go; hold out; hold up; last; live; live on; survive
Context example:
One crash victim died, the other lived
"Go" entails doing...:
be; live (have life, be alive)
Verb group:
be; live (have life, be alive)
exist; live; subsist; survive (support oneself)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "go"):
hold up; hold water; stand up (resist or withstand wear, criticism, etc.)
perennate (survive from season to season, of plants)
live out (live out one's life; live to the end)
Sentence frames:
Something ----s
Somebody ----s
Somebody ----s something
Sense 16
Meaning:
Pass, fare, or elapse; of a certain state of affairs or action
Classified under:
Verbs of being, having, spatial relations
Context example:
The day went well until I got your call
Sentence frame:
Something ----s
Also:
go with (go or occur together)
Derivation:
going (advancing toward a goal)
Sense 17
Meaning:
Pass from physical life and lose all bodily attributes and functions necessary to sustain life
Classified under:
Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.
Synonyms:
buy the farm; cash in one's chips; choke; conk; croak; decease; die; drop dead; exit; expire; give-up the ghost; go; kick the bucket; pass; pass away; perish; pop off; snuff it
Context example:
The old guy kicked the bucket at the age of 102
Hypernyms (to "go" is one way to...):
change state; turn (undergo a transformation or a change of position or action)
Verb group:
break; break down; conk out; die; fail; give out; give way; go; go bad (stop operating or functioning)
die (suffer or face the pain of death)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "go"):
abort (cease development, die, and be aborted)
asphyxiate; stifle; suffocate (be asphyxiated; die from lack of oxygen)
buy it; pip out (be killed or die)
drown (die from being submerged in water, getting water into the lungs, and asphyxiating)
predecease (die before; die earlier than)
famish; starve (die of food deprivation)
fall (die, as in battle or in a hunt)
succumb; yield (be fatally overwhelmed)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s
Derivation:
going (euphemistic expressions for death)
Sense 18
Meaning:
Be in the right place or situation
Classified under:
Verbs of being, having, spatial relations
Synonyms:
belong; go
Context example:
Where do these books go?
Hypernyms (to "go" is one way to...):
be (occupy a certain position or area; be somewhere)
Sentence frames:
Something is ----ing PP
Somebody ----s PP
Sentence example:
The chairs go in the corner
Sense 19
Meaning:
Be ranked or compare
Classified under:
Verbs of being, having, spatial relations
Context example:
This violinist is as good as Juilliard-trained violinists go
Hypernyms (to "go" is one way to...):
compare (be comparable)
Sentence frame:
Something ----s
Sense 20
Meaning:
Begin or set in motion
Classified under:
Verbs of walking, flying, swimming
Synonyms:
Context example:
Ready, set, go!
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "go"):
come on; come up; go on (start running, functioning, or operating)
get off the ground; take off (get started or set in motion, used figuratively)
Sentence frames:
Something ----s
Somebody ----s
Somebody ----s something
Sense 21
Meaning:
Have a turn; make one's move in a game
Classified under:
Verbs of fighting, athletic activities
Synonyms:
go; move
Context example:
Can I go now?
"Go" entails doing...:
play (participate in games or sport)
Verb group:
make a motion; move (propose formally; in a debate or parliamentary meeting)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "go"):
bluff; bluff out (deceive an opponent by a bold bet on an inferior hand with the result that the opponent withdraws a winning hand)
stalemate (subject to a stalemate)
castle (move the king two squares toward a rook and in the same move the rook to the square next past the king)
serve (put the ball into play)
open (make the opening move)
maneuver; manoeuver; manoeuvre; operate (perform a movement in military or naval tactics in order to secure an advantage in attack or defense)
check (decline to initiate betting)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s
Sentence example:
Sam and Sue go
Derivation:
go (a time period for working (after which you will be relieved by someone else))
Sense 22
Meaning:
Be contained in
Classified under:
Verbs of being, having, spatial relations
Context example:
How many times does 18 go into 54?
Sentence frame:
Something ----s something
Sense 23
Meaning:
Be sounded, played, or expressed
Classified under:
Verbs of being, having, spatial relations
Context example:
How does this song go again?
Sentence frame:
Something ----s
Sense 24
Meaning:
Blend or harmonize
Classified under:
Verbs of being, having, spatial relations
Synonyms:
Context example:
This sofa won't go with the chairs
Hypernyms (to "go" is one way to...):
accord; agree; concord; consort; fit in; harmonise; harmonize (go together)
Verb group:
fit; go (be the right size or shape; fit correctly or as desired)
Sentence frames:
Something ----s
Something is ----ing PP
Sense 25
Meaning:
Lead, extend, or afford access
Classified under:
Verbs of being, having, spatial relations
Synonyms:
go; lead
Context example:
The road runs South
Hypernyms (to "go" is one way to...):
be (occupy a certain position or area; be somewhere)
Sentence frame:
Something is ----ing PP
Sense 26
Meaning:
Be the right size or shape; fit correctly or as desired
Classified under:
Verbs of being, having, spatial relations
Synonyms:
fit; go
Context example:
This piece won't fit into the puzzle
Hypernyms (to "go" is one way to...):
fit (conform to some shape or size)
Verb group:
blend; blend in; go (blend or harmonize)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "go"):
tessellate (fit together exactly, of identical shapes)
joint (fit as if by joints)
Sentence frame:
Something ----s
Sense 27
Meaning:
Go through in search of something; search through someone's belongings in an unauthorized way
Classified under:
Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging
Synonyms:
go; rifle
Context example:
Who rifled through my desk drawers?
Hypernyms (to "go" is one way to...):
search (subject to a search)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s PP
Sense 28
Meaning:
Be spent
Classified under:
Verbs of eating and drinking
Context example:
All my money went for food and rent
Verb group:
go; run low; run short (to be spent or finished)
Sentence frame:
Something is ----ing PP
Sense 29
Meaning:
Give support (to) or make a choice (of) one out of a group or number
Classified under:
Verbs of thinking, judging, analyzing, doubting
Synonyms:
go; plump
Context example:
I plumped for the losing candidates
Hypernyms (to "go" is one way to...):
choose; pick out; select; take (pick out, select, or choose from a number of alternatives)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody
Sense 30
Meaning:
Stop operating or functioning
Classified under:
Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.
Synonyms:
break; break down; conk out; die; fail; give out; give way; go; go bad
Context example:
her eyesight went after the accident
Hypernyms (to "go" is one way to...):
change (undergo a change; become different in essence; losing one's or its original nature)
Verb group:
break (render inoperable or ineffective)
buy the farm; cash in one's chips; choke; conk; croak; decease; die; drop dead; exit; expire; give-up the ghost; go; kick the bucket; pass; pass away; perish; pop off; snuff it (pass from physical life and lose all bodily attributes and functions necessary to sustain life)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "go"):
crash; go down (stop operating)
blow; blow out; burn out (melt, break, or become otherwise unusable)
misfire (fail to fire or detonate)
malfunction; misfunction (fail to function or function improperly)
Sentence frame:
Something ----s
Sentence example:
These cars won't go
Context examples
Lestrade looked at Holmes as if he thought he was going out of his mind.
(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
“I am afraid, Watson, that I shall have to go,” said Holmes, as we sat down together to our breakfast one morning.
(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Finally he returned to the pawnbroker’s, and, having thumped vigorously upon the pavement with his stick two or three times, he went up to the door and knocked.
(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
I loved her young and I love her old, and when she goes she will take something with her which nothing in the world can ever make good to me again.
(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Plan to keep a space of as many days as possible between the day Mercury goes retrograde and the date you act.
(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)
I desired his leave to go with them, that I might see the country, and make what discoveries I could.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)
“Nay, I shall go! I shall go!” said Alleyne hurriedly, as Hordle John began to slowly roll up his sleeve, and bare an arm like a leg of mutton.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
It was certainly going some, was his internal comment.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
Do you know where you are going, and what you are going to?
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
He had never seen a dog go mad, nor did he have any reason to fear madness; yet he knew that here was horror, and fled away from it in a panic.
(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)
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