Dictionary entry details
• GO THROUGH (verb)
Meaning:
Go or live through
Classified under:
Verbs of seeing, hearing, feeling
Synonyms:
experience; go through; undergo; see
Context examples:
We had many trials to go through / he saw action in Viet Nam
Hypernyms (to "go through" is one way to...):
participate; take part (share in something)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "go through"):
find; see; witness (perceive or be contemporaneous with)
enjoy (have for one's benefit)
feel (undergo passive experience of:)
meet; suffer (undergo or suffer)
endure; suffer (undergo or be subjected to)
experience; know; live (have firsthand knowledge of states, situations, emotions, or sensations)
come (experience orgasm)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s something
Meaning:
Apply thoroughly; think through
Classified under:
Verbs of eating and drinking
Synonyms:
run through; work through; go through
Context example:
We worked through an example
Hypernyms (to "go through" is one way to...):
work (exert oneself by doing mental or physical work for a purpose or out of necessity)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "go through"):
whip through (go through very fast)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s something
Meaning:
Go across or through
Classified under:
Verbs of walking, flying, swimming
Synonyms:
pass; go across; go through
Context examples:
We passed the point where the police car had parked / A terrible thought went through his mind
Hypernyms (to "go through" is one way to...):
go; locomote; move; travel (change location; move, travel, or proceed)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "go through"):
muscle (make one's way by force)
overstep; transgress; trespass (pass beyond (limits or boundaries))
negotiate (succeed in passing through, around, or over)
lock (pass by means through a lock in a waterway)
make; work (proceed along a path)
cycle (pass through a cycle)
blunder; fumble (make one's way clumsily or blindly)
crash (move violently as through a barrier)
cut (pass directly and often in haste)
break through; crack (pass through (a barrier))
squeak by; squeak through (escape)
transit (pass across (a sign or house of the zodiac) or pass across (the disk of a celestial body or the meridian of a place))
cover; cross; cut across; cut through; get across; get over; pass over; track; traverse (travel across or pass over)
infiltrate; pass through (pass through an enemy line; in a military conflict)
run (cover by running; run a certain distance)
move through; pass across; pass over; pass through; transit (make a passage or journey from one place to another)
Sentence frames:
Something is ----ing PP
Somebody ----s PP
Meaning:
Eat immoderately
Classified under:
Verbs of eating and drinking
Synonyms:
consume; down; devour; go through
Context example:
Some people can down a pound of meat in the course of one meal
Hypernyms (to "go through" is one way to...):
eat (take in solid food)
Sentence frame:
Something ----s somebody
Sentence example:
They go through more bread
Meaning:
Pursue to a conclusion or bring to a successful issue
Classified under:
Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.
Synonyms:
follow out; follow up; put through; carry out; follow through; implement; go through
Context examples:
Did he go through with the treatment? / He implemented a new economic plan / She followed up his recommendations with a written proposal
Hypernyms (to "go through" is one way to...):
complete; finish (come or bring to a finish or an end)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "go through"):
adhere (follow through or carry out a plan without deviation)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s PP
