to go
- verb
- /ɡoʊ/
- It's all gone to her head...
- go wrong
- go to sleep
- go badly
Where does that love go when it's so present?
- 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
- Informal
To be unable to think clearly because you are very worried or upset
- Informal
Start again from the beginning when a plan or idea fails
- Informal
To do something very different from what most people expect or usually do
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
The most important thing that makes life keep going, like money or love
- Informal
Leave a game or group angrily because you did not get your way
- Informal
To spend time looking at people and things happening around you without taking part
Phrasal Verbs
To leave home to take part in a social activity like eating or watching a film
- Specialized
To start selling shares to the public for the first time on a stock market
Have permission to leave a place where you were kept, usually after being arrested or accused
Compounds
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
- Specialized
Stopping an approach or attempt to try again, for example when a plane pulls up instead of landing
- 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.