to go
- verb
- /ɡoʊ/
- It's all gone to her head...
- go wrong
- go to sleep
- go badly
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- Where does that love go when it's so present?
- That any should be condemned to go hungry as we were.
- The question is, how do you go from this to a gold mine?
- But many times they go, you know, unfound.
- I was in these relationships and they all go down the same way.
- If you pick the wrong seed, it can go very S very quickly.
Examples
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That any should be condemned to go hungry as we were.
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As ninety-five-year-old Winnie Fankhouser explains, going to the post office became the highlight of her day.
Academic text (2011) -
Where does that love go when it's so present?
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The question is, how do you go from this to a gold mine?
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I could relax and let go a little.
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Yet concern about the behavior of young people has been going on for hundreds of years.
Academic text (2008) -
Children had adult responsibility from the word go and were punished in the same way adults were.
Academic text (2008) -
I think something's gone wrong around here.
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So, like many campuses, we were going to need to work hard to raise money.
Academic text (2015) -
After the storm, many families were forced to go without food and shelter.
Synonyms
To experience something unpleasant, for example punishment or criticism
Start to change into a different state or role
Antonyms
Idioms
- Informal
To do something without real effort or interest because it is expected
- Informal
An idea or hope that is suddenly ignored and can no longer happen
The most important thing that makes life keep going, like money or love
- Informal
To do something very different from what most people expect or usually do
- Informal
Start again from the beginning when a plan or idea fails
- Informal
A warning not to talk about a subject because it may make people angry
To continue until the last possible moment while the result is not known
To try something new in a place or way no one has done before
- Informal
To spend time looking at people and things happening around you without taking part
Phrasal Verbs
Have permission to leave a place where you were kept, usually after being arrested or accused
Compounds
- Specialized
Stopping an approach or attempt to try again, for example when a plane pulls up instead of landing
A simple card game for two or more players where they ask for cards to make sets of four
A children's game where one person counts with eyes closed and finds hidden players
- Jargon
A basketball move where a player passes the ball then runs toward the basket to get the ball back
- Literature
A place people are afraid to enter or are not allowed to enter because it is dangerous
A board game for two players using black and white stones to surround and capture opponent stones
How Changed
Surface Forms
Etymology
Go began as a word for moving (Old English gān), and from that idea it came to mean 'move into a new state'. So when something 'goes' dry or 'goes' bankrupt, it has changed into that condition.