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GO THROUGH

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English dictionary: Word overview

GO THROUGH (verb)
  The verb GO THROUGH has 5 senses:

1. go or live through
2. apply thoroughly; think through
3. go across or through
4. eat immoderately
5. pursue to a conclusion or bring to a successful issue

  Familiarity information: GO THROUGH used as a verb is common.


English dictionary: Word details


GO THROUGH (verb)


Sense 1go through [BACK TO TOP]

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


Sense 2go through [BACK TO TOP]

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


Sense 3go through [BACK TO TOP]

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


Sense 4go through [BACK TO TOP]

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


Sense 5go through [BACK TO TOP]

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


English Proverbs
"All good things come to an end."
(English proverb)
"Do not wrong or hate your neighbor for it is not he that you wrong but yourself."
(Native American proverb, Pima)
"Be aware of the idiot, for he is like an old dress. Every time you patch it, the wind will tear it back again."
(Arabic proverb)
"Money sticks to another money."
(Croatian proverb)


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