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Synonyms for go

be given

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be dismissed

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  • be dismissed
  • be fired
  • be discharged
  • be laid off
  • get the sack
  • get the chop
  • get your P45

belong

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  • belong
  • be kept
  • be located
  • be situated

become

function

be used up

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  • be used up
  • be spent
  • be exhausted

serve

turn

go about something: tackle

go about something: engage in

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go along with someone

go along with something

go around or round

go at something

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go away

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go back

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go back on something

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go by

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go by something

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go down: lose

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go down: set

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go down: sink

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go down: be remembered

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  • be remembered
  • be recorded
  • be recalled
  • be commemorated

go down with something

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go far

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go for someone: prefer

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go for someone: attack

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go for someone: scold

go for something: choose

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go for something: try to get

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  • try to get
  • reach for
  • clutch at
  • stretch for

go in for something

go into something: enter

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go off: depart

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go off: explode

go off: sound

go off: take place

go off: go bad

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go on: happen

go on about something

go on doing something or go on with something

go out: see someone

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go out: be extinguished

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go over something: examine

go over something: rehearse

go through

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  • be completed
  • be approved
  • be concluded
  • be carried through

go through something: search

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go through something: examine

go through something: use up

go through with something

go together: harmonize

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go together: go out

go under: fail

go under: sink

go up

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go without something

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go with something

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no go

Collins Thesaurus of the English Language – Complete and Unabridged 2nd Edition. 2002 © HarperCollins Publishers 1995, 2002

Synonyms for go

to move along a particular course

to proceed in a specified direction

to look to when in need

to proceed on a certain course or for a certain distance

to change or fluctuate within limits

to perform a function effectively

to move toward a termination

to have a proper or suitable place

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to move past in time

to be depleted

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to do or fare well

to put up as a stake in a game or speculation

to make an offer of

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go along: to agree to cooperate or participate

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go around: to pass around but not through

go around: to become known far and wide

go at: to start work on vigorously

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go away: to move toward a termination

go back: to go again to a former place

go down: to come to the ground suddenly and involuntarily

go down: to undergo capture, defeat, or ruin

go far: to gain success

go for: to be favorably disposed toward

go for: to receive pleasure from

go for: to require a specified price

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go in: to come or go into (a place)

go off: to release or cause to release energy suddenly and violently, especially with a loud noise

go on: to be in existence or in a certain state for an indefinitely long time

go on: to continue without halting despite difficulties or setbacks

go on: to talk volubly, persistently, and usually inconsequentially

go out: to be with another person socially on a regular basis

go over: to turn out well

go over: to look at carefully or critically

go over: to give a recapitulation of the salient facts of

go through: to participate in or partake of personally

go under: to undergo capture, defeat, or ruin

go under: to undergo sudden financial failure

go up: to move upward on or along

go with: to be in keeping with

a brief trial

a limited, often assigned period of activity, duty, or opportunity

in a state of preparedness

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Synonyms for go

a time for working (after which you will be relieved by someone else)

street names for methylenedioxymethamphetamine

a usually brief attempt

a board game for two players who place counters on a grid

change location

follow a procedure or take a course

move away from a place into another direction

enter or assume a certain state or condition

have a particular form

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stretch out over a distance, space, time, or scope

be abolished or discarded

be or continue to be in a certain condition

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perform as expected when applied

to be spent or finished

progress by being changed

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be in the right place or situation

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be ranked or compare

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begin or set in motion

lead, extend, or afford access

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be the right size or shape

go through in search of something

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be spent

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give support (to) or make a choice (of) one out of a group or number

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functioning correctly and ready for action

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Then he went his way very sorrowful; but the old fox came and said,
At twelve o'clock at night the princess goes to the bathing-house: go up to her and give her a kiss, and she will let you lead her away; but take care you do not suffer her to go and take leave of her father and mother.' Then the fox stretched out his tail, and so away they went over stock and stone till their hair whistled again.
She took his shape, and went round the town to each one of the crew, telling them to meet at the ship by sundown.
Furthermore she went to the house of Ulysses, and threw the suitors into a deep slumber.
She never went to Snowfield--she took the coach to Stoniton, but I can't learn nothing of her after she got down from the Stoniton coach."
Poyser, after pursuing his walk for a little while, went on, "I'll be bound she's gone after trying to get a lady's maid's place, for she'd got that in her head half a year ago, and wanted me to gi' my consent.
But before the Prince went to the tournament he said to his wife, 'Now I know you will betray me to-day.'
One day an old man went to a stream to dip in a crust of bread which he was going to eat, when a dog came out of the water, snatched the bread from his hand, and ran away.
"Well," says I, a-blubbering, "I've told every- body before, and they just went away and left us."
They went off and I got aboard the raft, feeling bad and low, because I knowed very well I had done wrong, and I see it warn't no use for me to try to learn to do right; a body that don't get STARTED right when he's little ain't got no show -- when the pinch comes there ain't nothing to back him up and keep him to his work, and so he gets beat.
And with that he said he would introduce me if I had a mind; so I followed him to the door, and he looking in, 'There, madam,' says he, 'are the gamesters, if you have a mind to venture.' I looked in and said to my comrade aloud, 'Here's nothing but men; I won't venture among them.' At which one of the gentlemen cried out, 'You need not be afraid, madam, here's none but fair gamesters; you are very welcome to come and set what you please.' so I went a little nearer and looked on, and some of them brought me a chair, and I sat down and saw the box and dice go round apace; then I said to my comrade, 'The gentlemen play too high for us; come, let us go.'
However, I held the box so long that I had gained him his whole money, and had a good handful of guineas in my lap, and which was the better luck, when I threw out, I threw but at one or two of those that had set me, and so went off easy.
Up to the time we went out last night the family hadn't heard about Jake Dunlap being murdered.
Tom said he believed if we went to the sycamores we would find that body laying there solitary and alone, and not a soul around.
To put an end to the matter, we went upstairs, and asked the traffic superintendent, and he told us that he had just met a man, who said he had seen it at number three platform.